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Religious Horror and the Ecogothic

Av Kathleen Hudson, Mary Going

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Religious Horror and the Ecogothic explores the intersections of Anglophone Christianity and the Ecogothic, a subgenre that explores the ecocritical in Gothic literature, film, and media. Acknowledging the impact of Christian ideologies upon interpretations of human relationships with the environment, the Ecogothic in turn interrogates spiritual identity and humanity’s darker impulses in relation to ecological systems. Through a 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, and sublimity shapes reactions to the environment and conceptions of humanity’s place therein. It interrogates the discourses which inform environmental policy, as well as definitions of the “human” in a rapidly changing world.
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Kathleen Hudson is adjunct professor at the United States Naval Academy and Anne Arundel Community College.Mary Going is British Academy postdoctoral research associate at the University of Sheffield.

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This collection highlights the centrality of nature in literary narrative, juxtaposed with the catastrophe of climate change. The combined, and somewhat contorted, denial of “humanity’s impact on the environment” (p. 7) and the rhetoric of dominion and stewardship espousals by reactionary Evangelical Christians are contrasted with a view of humanity as interacting with nature. Analysis of the trope of the whale—from the Book of Jonah to Cotton Mather’s jeremiad on “the monstrous features of baleen whales” (p. 26), to Jonathan Greenaway’s delineation of how Captain Ahab’s monomaniacal pursuit enables “countervailing discourses of resistance” (p. 84)—shows how acknowledging the power of sea animals dislodges human complacency. Christopher M. Scott’s analysis of Algernon Blackwood’s The Glamour of the Snow shows how the story can horrify and entertain, but also mime spiritual growth. Conversely, by deploying the theories of Charles Taylor, Madeline Potter shows how the horror fiction of J. Sheridan Le Fanu practices an “occlusive re-enactment” (p. 111) that cements profane horror ahead of sacred reassurance. An epilogue linking climate change to the current fighting in Gaza foregrounds the urgency that yokes the polyvalent analyses at play in this volume. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.

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