The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature and the Environment

Dennis Denisoff is McFarlin Chair of English at the University of Tulsa and recipient of the President's Award from both the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association and the North American Victorian Studies Association. He is a past Sarwan Sahota Distinguished Scholar at Toronto Metropolitan University, a recent Visiting Distinguished Researcher at Queen Mary University of London, and the 2025 Ruth and Lillian Marino Chair of the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. He is the author of Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910 (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

• Introduction Dennis Denisoff; Part I. The Global Imaginary: 1. Novel geologies: Victorian fiction in catastrophic times Jesse Oak Taylor; 2. Eco gothic: dislocations of scale Roger Luckhurst; 3. Entropy, exhaustion, and degeneration in science fiction and decadence Benjamin Morgan; 4. Blue ecologies Cannon Schmitt; 5. Aesthetic form and global systems Nathan K. Hensley; Part II. Imperialism and Colonialism: 6. Agricultural ecologies Grace Moore; 7. Empire, environment, and botanical art in British India Lindsay Wells; 8. The agricultural roots of realism: Lal Behari Day's Govinda Samanta Sukanya Banerjee; 9. British values, indigenous knowledge, and settler colonial environments Philip Steer; Part III. Vegetal and Animal Correlations: 10. Floral poetics Catherine Maxwell; 11. Vegetal ontology in Emily Dickinson's poetic herbarium Michael Marder; 12. Queer ecology and the animal in Walter Pater and William Sharp Dennis Denisoff; 13. Plant agency Elizabeth Chang; Part IV. Environmental Uses and Abuses: 14. A little in the mining way: Victorian literatures of extraction Elizabeth Carolyn Miller; 15. The Victorian Capitalocene: Olive Schreiner on the frontier Ella Mershon; 16. The art of extinction: naturalizing colonization and Walter Buller's A History of the Birds of New Zealand Wendy Parkins; 17. Land use: The farm, the common and the wild Carolyn Lesjak; Part V. Environmentalism: 18. Pollution Allen MacDuffie; 19. Art and environment Kate Flint; 20. Climate and empire Adeline Johns-Putra; 21. The uncomfortable commons in Lewis Carroll and William Morris Barbara Leckie; 22. Form and activism Caroline Levine.

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