Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

ISBN-13: 9781138206458 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 238 str.

Dawn Keetley; Matthew Wynn Sivils

Opis

The first of its kind to address the ecogothic in American literature, this collection of fourteen articles illuminates a new and provocative literacy category, one that exists at the crossroads of the gothic and the environmental imagination, of fear and the ecosystems we inhabit.

O autorze

Dawn Keetley is Professor of English at Lehigh University, author of　Making a Monster: Jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer of 1870s Boston (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017), and co-editor of　Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film　(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Matthew Wynn Sivils is professor of English at Iowa State University and the author of American Environmental Fiction, 1782-1847 (Ashgate/Routledge, 2014).