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Specters of Dark Ecology: Romantic and Victorian Underside

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SpectersofDarkEcology:RomanticandVictorian
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Event:03/17/201603/20/2016
Abstract:09/30/2015
Categories:British,Romantics,Victorian,Interdisciplinary,CulturalStudies,Environmental
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Location:Hartford,Connecticut
Organization:NortheastMLAConference2016

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Theundersideorlowersurface(OED)isthespaceoftheunseentheobverseornegation.As

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negativespace,theundersideremainshiddenlurkingbelowthesurface,whichispresent

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throughitsabsencefromvisibility.InFrenchpoststructuralistphilosophy,theundersideis
JacquesDerridasdiffrancethedifferenceanddeferralofmeaningbasedondistinctionamong
signifiers(i.e./a/vs./e/).The/a/isindistinctfrom/e/andisunknownuntilitcomesintobeing
throughitswrittenform.InAmericanecocriticism,theundersideisTimothyMortonsnotionof
darkecologytheperverseoranomalousintheecologyofnature.Deformity,asymmetry,allure,
anddeceptionmarktheterrainoftheundersideinnature.Behindtherose,therearethorns.
Withinthewhiteflowersofwaterhemlock,toxinskill(asKeatsonceversifiedasthoughof

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Thepanelofpaperswillfeatureecocriticalpraxisasitsmaintheoreticalapproachtointerpreting
EnglishRomanticandVictorianliterarytexts.ThoughthetermecologywasnotcoinedbyErnst
Haeckeluntil1866,thelackoftheterminthelateeighteenthandearlynineteenthcenturiesdoes

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notprecludethefactthatBlakeandShelleywereawareofandconcernedfortheirenvirons.

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BlakeillustratedErasmusDarwinsTheBotanicGarden(1791)and,arguably,basedhis

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depictionofTheTyger(1794)fromDarwinsZoonomia,publishedthesameyear.Inaddition,

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MaryShelleyhadbeenfascinatedbythevitalismdebatebetweenJohnAbernethyandWilliam

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LawrencePercyShelleysphysician(RichardHolmes,TheAgeofWonder,2009),whichgave

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risetoherdepictionoftheanimationoftheCreatureprovokingintrigueaboutthesocalled

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superaddedlifeforceasanalogoustoelectricity.Asapoeticsofresistance,thepanelof

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paperswillconsidertheeffectsonnatureinducedbyhumanactivity.

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