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Gothic Nature

New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic

Issue One

Founded by Elizabeth Parker Edited by Elizabeth Parker and Michelle Poland



Gothic Nature

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About this Journal

Gothic Nature is a new peer-reviewed and open-access academic journal seeking to explore the latest evolutions of thought in the areas of ecohorror and the ecoGothic. It welcomes

articles, reviews, interviews, and original creative pieces interrogating the darker sides of our relationship with the nonhuman from new and more revered scholars working at the intersection of ecocriticism, Gothic and horror studies, and the wider environmental humanities.

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international movement making research freely available to the public in the pursuit of a greater global exchange of knowledge. Also visit the GN website for more information about

the journal, including contact details for the Editors and submission guidelines.

Founding Editor Elizabeth Parker

Editors Elizabeth Parker and Michelle Poland

Book Review Editor Jennifer Schell

TV and Film Review Editor Sara L. Crosby

Editorial Board: Stacy Alaimo

Eric G. Anderson Scott Brewster Rachele Dini Simon C. Estok Tom J. Hillard William Hughes Dawn Keetley Ian Kinane John Miller

Matthew Wynn Sivils Andrew Smith

Samantha Walton



Acknowledgements

It takes an enormous amount of work to get a journal like this off the ground. We say this not to credit ourselves, but rather to credit the many, many people who have helped to make this possible. As two Early Career Researchers, we're hugely grateful for the support of established academics who have so generously shared their expertise and enthusiasm for this project. We're honoured to have some of the foremost leading names in the fields of ecohorror, ecoGothic, Gothic Studies, and the environmental humanities on our Editorial Board and contributing essays to this first issue. We have been extremely fortunate with the dedication and talent of all our contributors, whose hard work and fervour have created the pages below. Special thanks must also be given to James Smith, who has helped advise on so many practical issues with publication, to Scott Brewster for kindly overseeing our introduction, and to Ian Kinane for his unwavering support throughout the editorial process. Most especially, we wish to thank Michael Belcher, who has made this open-access journal possible by so generously devoting his time to the creation and running of this beautiful website.



Gothic Nature

Issue One ? September 2019

Contents

Gothic Nature: An Introduction

1

Elizabeth Parker and Michelle Poland

ARTICLES

Gothic Nature Revisited: Reflections on the Gothic of Ecocriticism

21

Tom J. Hillard

Theorising the EcoGothic

34

Simon C. Estok

`Don't be a Zombie': Deep Ecology and Zombie Misanthropy

54

Kevin Corstorphine

Children of the Quorn: The Vegetarian, Raw, and the Horrors of Vegetarianism 78 Jimmy Packham

`A Stern, a Sad, a Darkly Meditative, a Distrustful, if not a Desperate Man,

103

Did He Become, from the Night of that Fearful Dream': Nathaniel Hawthorne's

Nocturnal Gothic

Sarah Cullen

`On the Border Territory Between the Animal and the Vegetable

127

Kingdoms': Plant-Animal Hybridity and the Late Victorian Imagination

Marc Ricard

EcoGothic, Ecohorror and Apocalyptic Entanglement in Alan Moore

155

and Dave Gibbons' Tales of the Black Freighter

James L. Smith and Colin Yeo

The Value(s) of Landscape: The Sublime, the Picturesque, and Ann Radcliffe

177

Garland D. Beasley

`Monkey-Advice and Monkey-Help': Isak Dinesen's EcoGothic

202

Peter Mortensen

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