Religious Horror and the Ecogothic (Ecocritical Theory and Practice) - Hardcover

Mary Going; Kathleen Hudson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1666945951 ISBN 13: 9781666945959

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2024

Synopsis

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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About the Authors

Kathleen Hudson is adjunct professor at the United States Naval Academy and Anne Arundel Community College.

Mary Going is British Academy postdoctoral research associate at the University of Sheffield.

Jonathan Greenaway is Researcher in Theology and Horror at the University of Chester, UK. His work has appeared in the Guardian and the New York Times and he tweets @thelitcritguy.

Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet is professor of American literature and culture at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

Madeline Potter is Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in the Long 19th Century (Romanticism to Victorianism) at University of Edinburgh.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1666945951
• ISBN 13: 9781666945959
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 286