Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic, 1837–1871

Nicole C. Dittmer offers a reimagining of the popular Gothic female “monster” figure in early-to-mid-Victorian literature. Regardless of the extensive scholarship concerning monstrosities, these pre- fin-de-siècle figurations have often been neglected by critical studies or interpreted as fragments of mind and body which create a division between culture and nature. In Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism , Dittmer deploys monism to delineate from and contest such dualism, unifies the material-immate