A fairly academic collection of essays about the uncanny in gardens – ghosts, fairy sightings, nasty things in orchards if not woodsheds… who knew that ‘ecogothic studies’ is a Thing? M R James’s ‘Ash Tree’ is maybe a bit late, but ‘A Woman in White’ is very much in. The genre is a thrilling discovery. We hope the next instalment will be called ‘The Way of the Triffids’. (The price is not a misprint.)
Ecogothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century: Phantoms, Fantasy and Uncanny Flowers
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Out of stock
£80.00
Hardback978152614568017/11/2020
Categories: 16. Books for Christmas 2020: Gardens, Books for Christmas 2020, Gardens, Literature, Reference & Ideas
Tags: Gardens (descriptions, history etc), Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history and criticism
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