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
