Fear and Nature: Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene

Author:   Christy Tidwell (Associate Professor of English & Humanities, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology) ,  Carter Soles (Associate Professor of Film Studies, SUNY College at Brockport)
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
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Pages:   300
Publication Date:   07 July 2021
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Author:   Christy Tidwell (Associate Professor of English & Humanities, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology) ,  Carter Soles (Associate Professor of Film Studies, SUNY College at Brockport)
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.617kg
ISBN:  

9780271090214


ISBN 10:   0271090219
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   07 July 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Acknowledgements Introduction: Ecohorror in the Anthropocene Christy Tidwell and Carter Soles Part 1: Expanding Horror 1. Tentacular Ecohorror and the Agency of Trees in Algernon Blackwood’s “The Man Whom the Trees Loved” and Lorcan Finnegan’s Without Name Dawn Keetley 2. Spiraling Inward and Outward: Junji Ito’s Uzumaki and the Scope of Ecohorror Christy Tidwell 3. “The Hand of Deadly Decay”: The Rotting Corpse, America’s Religious Tradition, and the Ethics of Green Burial in Poe’s “The Colloquy of Monos and Una” Ashley Kniss Part 2: Haunted and Unhaunted Landscapes 4. The Death of Birdsong, the Birdsong of Death: Algernon Charles Swinburne and the Horror of Erosion Keri Stevenson 5. An Unhaunted Landscape: The Anti-Gothic Impulse in Ambrose Bierce’s “A Tough Tussle” Chelsea Davis 6. The Extinction-Haunted Salton Sea in The Monster That Challenged the World Bridgitte Barclay Part 3: The Ecohorror of Intimacy 7. From the Bedroom to the Bathroom: Stephen King’s Scatology and the Emergence of an Urban Environmental Gothic Marisol Cortez 8. “This Bird Made an Art of Being Vile”: Ontological Difference and Uncomfortable Intimacies in Stephen Gregory’s The Cormorant Brittany R. Roberts 9. The Shape of Water and Post-pastoral Ecohorror Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann Part 4: Being Prey, Being Food 10. Superpig Blues: Agribusiness Ecohorror in Bong Joon-ho’s Okja Kristen Angierski 11. Zoo: Television Ecohorror On and Off the Screen Sharon Sharp 12. Naturalizing White Supremacy in The Shallows Carter Soles Contributors Index

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Fear and Nature expansively defines eco-horror as not only a sub-genre of literature but as a cohesive mode operating across genres and media. Whether talking about Algernon Blackwood or Algernon Swinburne, Bong Joon Ho or Junji Ito, this volume explores the rhizomatic connections that make eco-criticism something that transcends genre, and makes a convincing case for its relevance not only today but as a way of reconsidering what has come before. -Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World Fear and Nature straddles popular culture studies, horror and gothic studies, film and literary studies, and cultural studies. It is an expansive, ambitious, and exploratory book that is working to move the field beyond earlier works of ecohorror criticism by considering fresh approaches to the subject. -Bernice Murphy, author of The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness


Fear and Nature straddles popular culture studies, horror and gothic studies, film and literary studies, and cultural studies. It is an expansive, ambitious, and exploratory book that is working to move the field beyond earlier works of ecohorror criticism by considering fresh approaches to the subject. -Bernice Murphy, author of The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness


Fear and Nature straddles popular culture studies, horror and gothic studies, film and literary studies, and cultural studies. It is an expansive, ambitious, and exploratory work that is working to move the field beyond earlier works of eco-horror criticism by considering fresh approaches to the subject. -Bernice Murphy, author of The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness


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Christy Tidwell is Associate Professor of English and Humanities at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. She is the coeditor of Gender and Environment in Science Fiction. Carter Soles is Associate Professor of Film Studies at SUNY Brockport. He has published a number of journal articles and book chapters in the fields of film studies and ecomedia.

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