Todd Owen Williams received his PhD in Literary Criticism and Theory from Kent State University. He is currently an Associate Professor of English at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania where he teaches composition and literature courses including Literature and Psychology and Early World Literature. He has published multiple articles on literary pedagogy, and on Victorian authors including the Rossettis, William Morris, and Oscar Wilde. He is the author of A Therapeutic Approach to Teaching Poetry and a contributor to the volume Teaching Victorian Literature in the Twenty-First Century.

• ContentsIntroduction: Cognitive Ecocriticism and Rossetti Ecocriticism and the MindRossetti and PsychologyRossetti and EcocriticismOverview Chapter 1: Self-Creation and EnvironmentWayfinding CognitionThe Autobiographical Self and Sociocultural HomeostasisThe Cognitive ModelChapter 2: Embodied Christian Aesthetics and Environmental EthicsAgape in NatureDark ‘Nature’ and Religious Environmentalism The Anthropocentricism DebateImplicit Environmental Ethics Chapter 3: Gleaning Ruth: Early Poetry Youthful Strains: Verses (1847)Being Ellen Alleyn: The GermNameless Rhymester: Blackwood’s Magazine SubmissionsChapter 4: Victorious Jael: First Major Poetry VolumesTraveling Uphill: Macmillan’s Magazine Wayfinding Sisters: "Goblin Market"Seasons of Redemption: Goblin Market and The Prince’s Progress VolumesChapter 5: Pious Hannah: Early Devotional Writings Retrieving Scripture for the Christian Year: Annus DominiEvangelist Models and Nature’s Mirrors: Called to Be SaintsCreation and Redemption: Seek and Find Chapter 6: Fruitful Sarah: The Pageant and Other Poems Time’s OrderThe Cognitive Model in PoetrySonnets of Earthly and Spiritual Love Chapter 7: Prophetess Anna: Later Devotional Writings Nature’s Commandments: Letter and SpiritAutobiographical Self-Revision: Time FliesSaints and Animals: Revisions to Time FliesApocalyptic Environmentalism: The Face of the Deep