Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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Contents
Introduction: Approaches to the Ecogothic
1 “Perverse Nature”: Anxieties of Animality and Environment in Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly
2 “A Heap of Ruins”: The Horrors of Deforestation in Leonora Sansay’s Secret History
3 “The Earth Was Groaning and Shaking”: Landscapes of Slavery in The History of Mary Prince
4 “Give me my skin”: William J. Snelling’s “A Night in the Woods” (1836) and the Gothic Accusation Against Buffalo Extinction
5 Failures to Signify: Poe’s Uncanny Animal Others
6 Gothic Materialisms: Experimenting with Fire and Water in Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of (Im)mortality
7 “The Birth-Mark,” “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” and the Ecogothic
8 Ghoulish Hinterlands: Ecogothic Confrontations in American Slave Narratives
9 Bleeding Feet and Failing Knees: The Ecogothic in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Chasing Ice
10 Vegetal Haunting: The Gothic Plant in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
11 Ecogothic Extinction Fiction: The Extermination of the Alaskan Mammoth
12 Hyperobjects and the End of the World: Elemental Antagonists of American Naturalism
13 “Two Distinct Worlds”? Maintaining and Transgressing the Boundaries of the Hum Animal in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon
Notes on Contributors
Index