Religious Horror and the Ecogothic

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Approaches to Anglophone Religious Horror and the Ecogothic

By Kathleen Hudson and Mary Going

Part One: Early Gothic Origins

Chapter One

Biblical Marine Biology: Cotton Mather's Cetological Exegesis and the Oceanic Ecogothic

By Jennifer Schell

Chapter Two

"The lady's talent for description leads her to excess": Radcliffe, Landscape, and Gender

By Rosemary Whitcombe

Chapter Three

Sacred Consumption: An Ecocritical Reading of Gothic Cannibalism

By Laura R. Kremmel

Part Two: Long Nineteenth Century Evolutions

Chapter Four

Between Domination and Sublimity: The Ecogothic and Moby Dick

By Jonathan Greenaway

Chapter Five

Occlusive Re-Enchantment: J.S. Le Fanu's Ecogothic

By Madeline Potter

Chapter Six

Ecological Hellscapes of Religious Doubt: Exploring Gothic Nature and the Horrific Divine in Gerard Manley Hopkins and James Thomson

By Ruth-Anne Walbank

Chapter Seven

Strange Summits: Christian Hope and Salvation in the Mountain Topography of Algernon Blackwood's "The Glamour of the Snow"

By Christopher M. Scott

Part Three: Twentieth Century Reimaginings

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

by Antonio Alcala Gonzalez

Chapter Nine

"Are We Not Men?": Dominionism and the Evolution of The Island of Doctor Moreau

By Mary Going

Chapter Ten

"A strange green God": Ecocritical Readings of Christian and Cult Sacrifice in Postmodern Folk Horror

By Kathleen Hudson

Part Four: Contemporary Ecohorrors

Chapter Eleven

Ecogothic Meets Religious Horror in M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening

Agnieszka

Chapter Twelve

Oryx and Eve: Geneses, Gender, and the Gothic in Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy

By Lauren Nixon

Chapter Thirteen

Atavistic Trolls and Christian Immorality in Nordic Ecogothic

Kaja Franck

Afterword

Our Burning World

By Kathleen Hudson and Mary Going

Index

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• Grupos religiosos: aspectos sociais e culturais
• Estudos literários: ficção, romancistas e escritores de prosa
• Ecologia aplicada
• Contos de horror e fantasmas

Christianity;ecocriticism;ecology;environment;Gothic;Horror;Religion