EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century

Sue Edney is a Lecturer in English Literature and Environmental Writing at the University of Bristol

'Ferns often represent ‘fascination’, and this is a great way to define my feelings about EcoGothic Gardens: there is much to fascinate in this collection.' Jemma Stewart, The Dark Arts Journal'EcoGothic Gardens convincingly demonstrates that horticultural space was anything but neutral in the nineteenth century [...] This book adds to a growing body of scholarship on Gothic ecologies and is essential reading for anyone working on Victorian horticulture.'Lindsay Wells, Victorian Studies

• Introduction: Phantoms, fantasy and uncanny flowers – Sue Edney1 Deadly gardens: The 'Gothic green' in Goethe and Eichendorff – Heather I. Sullivan2 'Diabolic clouds over everything': An ecoGothic reading of John Ruskin's garden at Brantwood – Caroline Ikin3 The Gothic orchard of the Victorian imagination – Joanna Crosby4 Gothic Eden: Gardens, religious tradition and ecoGothic exegesis in Algernon Blackwood’s 'The Lost Valley' and 'The Transfer' – Christopher M. Scott5 'That which roars further out': Gardens and wilderness in 'The Man who Went too Far' by E. F. Benson and 'The Man Whom the Trees Loved' by Algernon Blackwood – Ruth Heholt6 Darwin's plants and Darwin's gardens: Sex, sensation and natural selection – Jonathan Smith7 'Tentacular thinking' and the 'abcanny' in Hawthorne's Gothic gardens of masculine egotism – Shelley Saguaro8 Green is the new black: Plant monsters as ecoGothic tropes; vampires and femme fatales – Teresa Fitzpatrick 9 Death and the fairy: Hidden gardens and the haunting of childhood – Francesca Bihet10 Presence and absence in Tennyson's gardens of grief: 'Mariana', Maud and Somersby – Sue Edney11 Blackwater Park and the haunting of Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White – Adrian TaitAfterword: Z Vesper, the Wilderness Garden, Powis Castle – Paul EvansIndex