Plant Horror
Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film
Editors: Keetley, Dawn, Tenga, Angela (Eds.)
Free Preview- Explores artistic representations of vegetal life that imperil human life
- Explores the way that vegetal threats express human anxieties in art, fiction, and film
- Features analysis of The Day of the Triffids, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Wicker Man, Swamp Thing and The Happening
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- About this book
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This collection explores artistic representations of vegetal life that imperil human life, voicing anxieties about our relationship to other life forms with which we share the earth. From medieval manuscript illustrations to modern works of science fiction and horror, plants that manifest monstrous agency defy human control, challenge anthropocentric perception, and exact a violent vengeance for our blind and exploitative practices. Plant Horror explores how depictions of monster plants reveal concerns about the viability of our prevailing belief systems and dominant ideologies— as well as a deep-seated fear about human vulnerability in an era of deepening ecological crisis. Films discussed include The Day of the Triffids, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Wicker Man, Swamp Thing, and The Happening.
- About the authors
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Dawn Keetley teaches at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She has published on several recent horror TV series as well as on horror films from the 1930s to the present. She is the editor of a collection of essays on The Walking Dead (2014) and is finishing a book on 19th century Boston murderer, Jesse Pomeroy, as well as a co-edited collection on the ecogothic in 19th century America.
Angela Tenga currently teaches courses in literature, history, and popular culture at Florida Institute of Technology. Her research interests include monster studies, representations of crime in fiction, early English literature, and the renewal and revision of the medieval in modern popular culture.
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- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction: Six Theses on Plant Horror; or, Why Are Plants Horrifying?
Pages 1-30
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The Pre-cosmic Squiggle: Tendril Excesses in Early Modern Art and Science Fiction Cinema
Pages 31-53
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Seeds of Horror: Sacrifice and Supremacy in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Wicker Man, and Children of the Corn
Pages 55-72
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The Mandrake’s Lethal Cry: Homuncular Plants in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Pages 73-89
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Green Hells: Monstrous Vegetations in Twentieth-Century Representations of Amazonia
Pages 91-109
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Plant Horror
- Book Subtitle
- Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film
- Editors
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- Dawn Keetley
- Angela Tenga
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-57063-5
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-57063-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-57062-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIV, 278
- Number of Illustrations
- 14 illustrations in colour
- Topics
