Religious Horror and the Ecogothic

Kathleen Hudson, Mary Going, Kathleen Hudson , Mary Going

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English

Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
15 June 2024

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Horror & ghost stories; Religious groups: social & cultural aspects; Applied ecology

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Religious Horror and the Ecogothic explores the intersections of Anglophone Christianity and the Ecogothic, the category of Gothic literature that explores the ecocritical in Gothic literature, film, and media. Acknowledging the impact of key Christian ideologies and aesthetics upon interpretations of human relationships with the environment, works in the Ecogothic subgenre interrogate spiritual identity, unease, awe, and humanity’s darker impulses in relation to myriad ecological systems. Through an extensive 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, sublimity, and other critical areas of the human experience shapes reactions to the environment and conceptions of humanity’s place in it, from Eden to Armageddon. It interrogates the evolving discourses which inform current environmental policy, as well as, more fundamentally, definitions of the ‘human’ in a rapidly changing world.

Contributions by: Kathleen Hudson, Mary Going, Antonio Alcalá González
Edited by: Kathleen Hudson, Mary Going
Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 237mm, Width: 161mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9781666945959
ISBN 10: 1666945951
Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Pages: 282
Publication Date: 15 June 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mary Going is British Academy postdoctoral research associate at the University of Sheffield. Kathleen Hudson is adjunct professor at the United States Naval Academy and Anne Arundel Community College, and guest lecturer and contributor for the Rosenbach Museum and Library and the Gothic Women project.

Reviews for Religious Horror and the Ecogothic

Religious Horror and the Ecogothic provides the first sustained analysis of the representation of Anglophone Christianity in the ecogothic. The book reflects on why Christianity is represented as complicit with anti-ecological views in texts and other media from the eighteenth century to the present day. This is a timely and important book which examines how religious interests have become used to support anti-ecological capitalist ambitions. -- Professor Andrew Smith, University of Sheffield, UK