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02838aam a2200325 i 4500 001 ADECDE40A55F11EAA027EF1497128E48 003 SILO 005 20200603010033 008 200120s2020 sz b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 303035153X 020 $a 9783030351533 035 $a (OCoLC)1140172353 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d BDX $d ZLM $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 050 14 $a PN56 F64 P37 2020 100 1 $a Parker, Elizabeth $e author. 245 14 $a The forest and the ecogothic : $b the deep dark woods in the popular imagination / $c Elizabeth Parker. 264 1 $a Cham, Switzerland : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c [2020] 300 $a ix, 308 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a Palgrave gothic 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: into the woods -- Theorising the forest: approaching a dark ecology -- 'What if it's the trees?': the living forest -- Where the wild things are: monsters in the forest -- 'It isn't right to build so close to the woods': humans and the forest -- Conclusion: what is 'that awful secret of the wood'? 520 $a "This book offers the first full length study on the pervasive archetype of The Gothic Forest in Western culture. The idea of the forest as deep, dark, and dangerous has an extensive history and continues to resonate throughout contemporary popular culture. The Forest and the EcoGothic examines both why we fear the forest and how exactly these fears manifest in our stories. It draws on and furthers the nascent field of the ecoGothic, which seeks to explore the intersections between ecocriticism and Gothic studies. In the age of the Anthropocene, this work importantly interrogates our relationship to and understandings of the more-than-human world. This work introduces the trope of the Gothic forest, as well as important critical contexts for its discussion, and examines the three main ways in which this trope manifests: as a living, animated threat; as a traditional habitat for monsters; and as a dangerous site for human settlement. This book will appeal to students and scholars with interests in horror and the Gothic, ecohorror and the ecoGothic, environmentalism, ecocriticism, and popular culture more broadly. The accessibility of the subject of 'The Deep Dark Woods', coupled with increasingly mainstream interests in interactions between humanity and nature, means this work will also be of keen interest to the general public." -- Publisher's description 650 0 $a Gothic fiction (Literary genre) $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Forests in literature. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9783030351540 830 0 $a Palgrave gothic series 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240403011636.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=ADECDE40A55F11EAA027EF1497128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search