Victorian Writers and the Environment : Ecocritical Perspectives (Paperback)

Contents, List of Figures, Acknowledgements, Introduction Practical Ecocriticism and the Victorian Text Laurence W. Mazzeno, Alvernia University and Ronald D. Morrison, Morehead State University Chapter 1: Reading Nature: John Ruskin, Environment, and the Ecological Impulse Mark Frost, University of Portsmouth Chapter 2: Between "bounded field" and "brooding star": A Study of Tennyson’s Topography Valerie Purton, Anglia Ruskin University Chapter 3: Celebration and Longing: Robert Browning and the Nonhuman World Ashton Nichols, Dickinson College Chapter 4: "Truth to Nature": The Pleasures and Dangers of the Environment in Christina Rossetti’s Poetry Serena Trowbridge, Birmingham City University Chapter 5: The Zoocentric Ecology of Hardy’s Poetic Consciousness Christine Roth, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Chapter 6: Early Dickens and Ecocriticism: The Social Novelist and the Nonhuman Troy Boone, University of Pittsburgh Chapter 7: Bleak Intra-Actions: Dickens, Turbulence, Material Ecology John Parham, University of Worcester Chapter 8: Dark Nature: A Critical Return to Bronte Country Deirdre d’Albertis, Bard College Chapter 9: Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty: Reframing the Pastoral Tradition Erin Bistline, Texas Tech University Chapter 10: The Environmental Politics and Aesthetics of Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines: Capital, Mourning and Desire John Miller, University of Sheffield Chapter 11: Jane Loudon’s Wildflowers, Popular Science, and the Victorian Culture of Knowledge Mary Ellen Bellanca, University of South Carolina Sumter Chapter 12: Falling in Love with Seaweeds: The Seaside Environments of George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Anna Feuerstein, University of Hawai’i at Manoa Chapter 13: Agriculture and Ecology in Richard Jefferies’s Hodge and His Masters Ronald D. Morrison, Morehead State University Chapter 14: Edward Carpenter, Henry Salt, and the Animal Limits of Victorian Environments Jed Mayer, SUNY at New Paltz Sources for Further Study Editors and Contributors Index