Victorian Literature, Queer Longing and the Shore, 1840–1920

Barbara Barrow is Associate Professor of English at Lund University in Sweden, where she is also a member of the Lund Environmental Humanities Hub. Her research interests include nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian literature, women, gender, and sexuality, and the environmental humanities. She is the author of Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry: Political Dialects (2019), and of articles on queer marine collecting, queer botany, feminized environmental disaster, and deep time that have appeared in CUSP, Victorian Poetry, Ecocene, Victoriographies, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and elsewhere.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Victorian Literature and the Queer Littoral1. Queer Odysseus, Victorian Shores2. New Women and Pleasure Boats3. Of Venuses and Mermaids: Littoral Ekphrasis4. A Queer Variety of Natural HistoryCoda: Neo-Victorianism at the Water’s Edge: Edugyan’s Washington BlackBibliography