Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dittmer, Nicole C

Titel

Monstrous women and ecofeminism in the Victorian gothic

Ist Teil von

• Ecocritical theory and practice

Ort / Verlag

Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Lexington Books

Erscheinungsjahr

[2023]

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Manchester Metropolitan University, 2021: "Wilderness and Female 'Monstrosity': A Material Ecofeminist Reading of Victorian Gothic Fiction"
• Includes bibliographical references and index
• Social behavior and 'domesticated' women -- Forbidden desire, mental degradation, and nature: repression of gothic madwomen -- Neglect, rage, and reaction: female criminality and the Victorian gothic -- Monstrous transformations and Victorian she-wolves.
• "Offering an ecofeminist approach to the interdisciplinary readings of the early to mid-Victorian Gothic of canonical narratives as well as ephemeral penny bloods and dreadfuls, Nicole C. Dittmer identifies assumed "monstrous" women as monistic mind-body figurations who reject social confines and reclaim nature"--