Sue Edney 
EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century [PDF ebook] 
Phantoms, fantasy and uncanny flowers

Eco Gothic gardens in the long nineteenth century provides fresh approaches to contemporary ecocritical and environmental debates, providing new, compelling insights into material relationships between vegetal and human beings. Through twelve exciting essays, the collection demonstrates how unseen but vital relationships among plants and their life systems can reflect and inform human behaviours and actions. In these entertaining essays, human and vegetal agency is interpreted through ecocritical and eco Gothic investigation of uncanny manifestations in gardens — hauntings, psychic encounters, monstrous hybrids, fairies and ghosts — with plants, greenhouses, granges, mansions, lakes, lawns, flowerbeds and trees as agents and sites of uncanny developments. The collection represents the forefront of eco Gothic critical debate and will be welcomed by specialists in environmental humanities at every level, as a timely, innovative inclusion in eco Gothic studies.