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Plant Horror

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Six Theses on Plant Horror; or, Why Are Plants Horrifying?
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    Chapter 2 The Pre-cosmic Squiggle: Tendril Excesses in Early Modern Art and Science Fiction Cinema
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    Chapter 3 Seeds of Horror: Sacrifice and Supremacy in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , The Wicker Man , and Children of the Corn
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    Chapter 4 The Mandrake’s Lethal Cry: Homuncular Plants in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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    Chapter 5 Green Hells: Monstrous Vegetations in Twentieth-Century Representations of Amazonia
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    Chapter 6 What We Think About When We Think About Triffids: The Monstrous Vegetal in Post-war British Science Fiction
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    Chapter 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
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    Chapter 8 Vegetable Discourses in the 1950s US Science Fiction Film
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    Chapter 9 Sartre and the Roots of Plant Horror
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    Chapter 10 What Do Plants Want?
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    Chapter 11 Monstrous Relationalities: The Horrors of Queer Eroticism and “Thingness” in Alan Moore and Stephen Bissette’s Swamp Thing
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    Chapter 12 “Just a Piece of Wood”: Jan Švankmajer’s Otesánek and the EcoGothic
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    Chapter 13 An Inscrutable Malice: The Silencing of Humanity in The Ruins and The Happening
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    Chapter 14 The Sense of the Monster Plant
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Title
Plant Horror
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan UK, January 2016
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-57063-5
ISBNs
978-1-137-57062-8, 978-1-137-57063-5
Editors

Dawn Keetley, Angela Tenga

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Country Count As %
Unknown 15 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 20%
Student > Master 3 20%
Professor 1 7%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 7%
Student > Bachelor 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 5 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 8 53%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 7%
Social Sciences 1 7%
Unknown 5 33%