Seeing in flowers: Eco-Feminism and the Victorian Gothic.

如何用充满恐惧词汇的哥特式语言（邦特，1996年第18页）来探索人类对气候危机的看法？哥特文学中对自然的描绘与理解人类对环境的态度有着直接的联系。借鉴维多利亚时代花卉选集的文化现象，我的论文探讨了花的语言是如何在哥特小说中表达出来的。与“植物恐怖”的隐喻不同，我的项目研究了花的象征主义如何破坏哥特式叙事，激发人们对自我和自然的反思。通过生态女性主义和生态哥特式的批评框架，我正在努力展示这些小说是如何产生文化建构的自然和自我定义的。如果工业革命在产生被称为人类世的地质时代中是有罪的，那么重要的是要看到维多利亚时代对自然世界的态度是如何嵌入到艺术中，以挑战男性中心主义和人类中心主义的态度。

How can Gothic language, infused with the vocabulary of fear (Punter, 1996 p. 18), be used to explore human perceptions of the climate crisis? Representations of nature in the Gothic have immediate relevance to understanding human attitudes about the environment. Drawing on the Victorian cultural phenomenon of flower anthologies, my thesis asks how the language of flowers is articulated in Gothic fiction. Distinguishable from the metaphor of 'plant horror' my project investigates how floral symbolism disrupts Gothic narratives to inspire reflection on selfhood and nature. Through ecofeminist and ecoGothic critical frameworks, I am working to show how these fictions produce culturally constructed definitions of nature and the self. If the industrial revolution is culpable in the production of the geological epoch termed the Anthropocene, it is vital to see how Victorian attitudes towards the natural world were embedded in the arts to challenge androcentric and anthropocentric attitudes.