Religious Horror and the Ecogothic
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Religious Horror and the Ecogothic

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Religious Horror and the Ecogothic

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Religious Horror and the Ecogothic explores the intersections of Anglophone Christianity and the Ecogothic, a subgenre that explores the ecocritical in Gothic literature, film, and media. Acknowledging the impact of Christian ideologies upon interpretations of human relationships with the environment, the Ecogothic in turn interrogates spiritual identity and humanity's darker impulses in relation to ecological systems. Through a survey of Ecogothic texts from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book illuminates the ways in which a Christianized understanding of hierarchy, dominion, fear, and sublimity shapes reactions to the environment and conceptions of humanity's place therein. It interrogates the discourses which inform environmental policy, as well as definitions of the "human" in a rapidly changing world.

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Yes, you can access Religious Horror and the Ecogothic by Kathleen Hudson,Mary Going in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Gothic, Romance, & Horror Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Approaches to Anglophone Religious Horror and the Ecogothic
  7. Part I: Early Gothic Origins
  8. Chapter One: Biblical Marine Biology: Cotton Mather’s Cetological Exegesis and the Oceanic Ecogothic
  9. Chapter Two: “The Lady’s Talent for Description Leads Her to Excess”: Radcliffe, Landscape, and Gender
  10. Chapter Three: Sacred Consumption: An Ecocritical Reading of Gothic Cannibalism
  11. Part II: Long Nineteenth-Century Evolutions
  12. Chapter Four: Between Domination and Sublimity: The Ecogothic and Moby-Dick
  13. Chapter Five: Ecological Hellscapes of Religious Doubt: Exploring Gothic Nature and the Horrific Divine in Gerard Manley Hopkins and James Thomson
  14. Chapter Six: Occlusive Re-Enchantment: J. S. Le Fanu’s Ecogothic
  15. Chapter Seven: Strange Summits: Christian Hope and Salvation in the Mountain Topography of Algernon Blackwood’s “The Glamour of the Snow”
  16. Part III: Twentieth-Century Reimaginings
  17. Chapter Eight: Anthropocenic Anxieties: What Humanity Should Not Have Summoned in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu” and William Hope Hodgson’s The Nightland
  18. Chapter Nine: “Are We Not Men?”: Dominionism and the Evolution of The Island of Doctor Moreau
  19. Chapter Ten: “A Strange Green God”: Ecocritical Readings of Christian and Cult Sacrifice in Postmodern Folk Horror
  20. Part IV: Contemporary Ecohorrors
  21. Chapter Eleven: Ecogothic Meets Religious Horror in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening
  22. Chapter Twelve: Oryx and Eve: Geneses, Gender, and the Gothic in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy
  23. Chapter Thirteen: Atavistic Trolls and Christian Immorality in Nordic Ecogothic
  24. Afterword: Our Burning World
  25. About the Contributors