Zooming in from work to Zoom in to @GothicRomancing this evening!
Tonight we have @Mrs_KStrange with Ecofeminism, the Gothic and the anthropocene
A fellow graduate of Stirling's (already missed 😭😡) Masters course The Gothic Imagination, this lecture will be in 3 parts; Ecohorror, Ecofeminism and Contemporary Female Gothic
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Nature has always been part of the Gothic, and can be seen from current contemp fiction to way back to Radcliffe. It's essential as both setting and as chracter
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Looking at Coleridge's 'Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner', the environment is more than just setting, it's an emotive response and is arguably the protagonist of the poem
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Ecohorror is a term that boomed in mid/late 1900's, particularly in cinema, with the popularity of 'creature features', and emerged alongside fears of the Cold War
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Hitchcock's The Birds was inspired by the Du Maurier short story as well as real events from 1961 that saw seagulls 'divebombing' Californian homes after ingesting toxins
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The trailer by Hitchcock was filled with dark humour, emphasising the inevitability of revebge from nonhumans brought on by human behaviour. This kind of human/nonhuman relationship gives rise to Ecohorror
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First dedicated scorlarly text was published in 2013, edited by Andrew Smith & William Hughes. Still so new that there is debate on how to present the theory (ecogothic, ecoGothic, EcoGothic?)
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Ecophobia explores nature as the ultimate enemy, thus excuses the damage inflicted upon it by humans. There is a fear of nature and the environment, rather than a symbiotic relationship with it
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There is a breakdown of the binary nature of what is human and what is other, a growing anxiety about civilisation and the planet. Narratives often transform memory into imagination
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Simon Estok coined the term Ecophobia in 2009, Ecogothic published in 2013 and GothicStudies publishes special volume on EcoGothic in 2014. Most current confs have at least one panel on the ecoGothic, or even whole conferences (check out @GothicNatureTCD)
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