Table of Contents: Introduction: Approaches to the Ecogothic 1. "Perverse Nature": Anxieties of Animality and Environment in Charles Brockden Brown? 2. "A Heap of Ruins": The Horrors of Deforestation in Leonora Sansay's Secret History 3. "The Earth was Groaning and Shaking": Landscapes of Slavery in The History of Mary Prince 4. "Give me my skin": William J. Snelling's "A Night in the Woods" (1836) and the Gothic 5. Failures to Signify: Poe's Uncanny Animal Others 6. Gothic Materialisms: Experimenting with Fire and Water in Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of (Im)mortality 7. "The Birth-Mark," "Rappaccini's Daughter," and the Ecogothic 8. Ghoulish Hinterlands: Ecogothic Confrontations in American Slave Narratives 9.Bleeding Feet and Failing Knees: The Ecogothic in Uncle Tom's Cabin and Chasing Ice 10. Vegetal Haunting: The Gothic Plant in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction 11. Ecogothic Extinction Fiction: The Extermination of the Alaskan Mammoth 12. Hyperobjects and the End of the World: Elemental Antagonists of American Naturalism 13. "Two Distinct Worlds" Maintaining and Transgressing Boundaries of the HumAnimal in Thomas Pynchon's "Mason & Dixon"