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SpectersofDarkEcology:RomanticandVictorianUndersideEvent:03/17/201603/20/2016Abstract:09/30/2015Categories:British,Romantics,Victorian,Interdisciplinary,CulturalStudies,EnvironmentalStudiesLocation:Hartford,ConnecticutOrganization:NortheastMLAConference2016
Theundersideorlowersurface(OED)isthespaceoftheunseentheobverseornegation.Asnegativespace,theundersideremainshiddenlurkingbelowthesurface,whichispresentthroughitsabsencefromvisibility.InFrenchpoststructuralistphilosophy,theundersideisJacquesDerridasdiffrancethedifferenceanddeferralofmeaningbasedondistinctionamongsignifiers(i.e./a/vs./e/).The/a/isindistinctfrom/e/andisunknownuntilitcomesintobeingthroughitswrittenform.InAmericanecocriticism,theundersideisTimothyMortonsnotionofdarkecologytheperverseoranomalousintheecologyofnature.Deformity,asymmetry,allure,anddeceptionmarktheterrainoftheundersideinnature.Behindtherose,therearethorns.Withinthewhiteflowersofwaterhemlock,toxinskill(asKeatsonceversifiedasthoughofhemlockIhaddrunkinOdetoaNightingale).
ThepanelofpaperswillfeatureecocriticalpraxisasitsmaintheoreticalapproachtointerpretingEnglishRomanticandVictorianliterarytexts.ThoughthetermecologywasnotcoinedbyErnstHaeckeluntil1866,thelackoftheterminthelateeighteenthandearlynineteenthcenturiesdoesnotprecludethefactthatBlakeandShelleywereawareofandconcernedfortheirenvirons.BlakeillustratedErasmusDarwinsTheBotanicGarden(1791)and,arguably,basedhisdepictionofTheTyger(1794)fromDarwinsZoonomia,publishedthesameyear.Inaddition,MaryShelleyhadbeenfascinatedbythevitalismdebatebetweenJohnAbernethyandWilliamLawrencePercyShelleysphysician(RichardHolmes,TheAgeofWonder,2009),whichgaverisetoherdepictionoftheanimationoftheCreatureprovokingintrigueaboutthesocalledsuperaddedlifeforceasanalogoustoelectricity.Asapoeticsofresistance,thepanelofpaperswillconsidertheeffectsonnatureinducedbyhumanactivity.
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