The Forest and the Ecogothic: The Deep Dark Woods in the Popular Imagination

by Elizabeth Parker

Book Overview

This book offers the first full length study on the pervasive archetype of The Gothic Forest in Western culture. The idea of the forest as deep, dark, and dangerous has an extensive history and continues to resonate throughout contemporary popular culture. The Forest and the EcoGothic examines both why we fear the forest and how exactly these fears manifest in our stories. It draws on and furthers the nascent field of the ecoGothic,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030351564
• ISBN13: 9783030351564
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"