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Book Synopsis1. Introduction: Six Theses on Plant Horror; or, Why Are Plants Horrifying?.Dawn Keetley.-2. The Pre-cosmic Squiggle: Tendril Excesses in Early Modern Art and Science Fiction Cinema.Agnes Scherer.-3. Seeds of Horror: Dominance and Sacrifice in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Wicker Man, and Children of the Corn.Angela Tenga.-4. The Mandrake's Lethal Cry: Homuncular Plants in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.Keridiana W. Chez.-5. Green Hells: Monstrous Vegetations in Twentieth-Century Representations of Amazonia.Camilo Jaramillo.-6. What We Think about When We Think about Triffids: The Monstrous Vegetal in Post-War British Science Fiction.Graham J. Matthews.-7. The Revenge of the Lawn: The Awful Agency of Uncontained Plant Life in Ward Moore's Greener Than You Think and Thomas Disch's The Genocides.Jill E. Anderson.-8. Vegetable Discourses in 1950s US Science Fiction Film.Adam Knee.-9. Sartre and the Roots of Plant Horror
Randy Laist.-10. W
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Six Theses on Plant Horror; or, Why Are Plants Horrifying?.Dawn Keetley.-2. The Pre-cosmic Squiggle: Tendril Excesses in Early Modern Art and Science Fiction Cinema.Agnes Scherer.-3. Seeds of Horror: Dominance and Sacrifice in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Wicker Man, and Children of the Corn.Angela Tenga.-4. The Mandrake’s Lethal Cry: Homuncular Plants in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.Keridiana W. Chez.-5. Green Hells: Monstrous Vegetations in Twentieth-Century Representations of Amazonia.Camilo Jaramillo.-6. What We Think about When We Think about Triffids: The Monstrous Vegetal in Post-War British Science Fiction.Graham J. Matthews.-7. The Revenge of the Lawn: The Awful Agency of Uncontained Plant Life in Ward Moore’s Greener Than You Think and Thomas Disch’s The Genocides.Jill E. Anderson.-8. Vegetable Discourses in 1950s US Science Fiction Film.Adam Knee.-9. Sartre and the Roots of Plant HorrorRandy Laist.-10. What Do Plants Want?.Gary Farnell.-11. Monstrous Relationalities: The Horrors of Queer Eroticism and “Thingness” in Alan Moore and Stephen Bissette’s Swamp Thing.Robin Alex McDonald and Dan Vena.-12. “Just a Piece of Wood”: Jan Švankmajer’s Otesánek and the EcoGothic.Elizabeth Parker.-13. An Inscrutable Malice: The Silencing of Humanity in The Ruins and The Happening.Jericho Williams.-14. The Sense of the Monster Plant.Matthew Hall
