Victorian Writers and the Environment

Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus at Alvernia University, USA.Ronald D. Morrison is Professor of English at Morehead State University, USA.

• ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction Practical Ecocriticism and the Victorian TextLaurence W. Mazzeno, Alvernia University and Ronald D. Morrison, Morehead State UniversityChapter 1: Reading Nature: John Ruskin, Environment, and the Ecological ImpulseMark Frost, University of PortsmouthChapter 2: Between "bounded field" and "brooding star": A Study of Tennyson’s TopographyValerie Purton, Anglia Ruskin UniversityChapter 3: Celebration and Longing: Robert Browning and the Nonhuman WorldAshton Nichols, Dickinson CollegeChapter 4: "Truth to Nature": The Pleasures and Dangers of the Environment in Christina Rossetti’s PoetrySerena Trowbridge, Birmingham City UniversityChapter 5: The Zoocentric Ecology of Hardy’s Poetic ConsciousnessChristine Roth, University of Wisconsin OshkoshChapter 6: Early Dickens and Ecocriticism: The Social Novelist and the NonhumanTroy Boone, University of PittsburghChapter 7: Bleak Intra-Actions: Dickens, Turbulence, Material EcologyJohn Parham, University of WorcesterChapter 8: Dark Nature: A Critical Return to Brontë CountryDeirdre d’Albertis, Bard CollegeChapter 9: Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty: Reframing the Pastoral TraditionErin Bistline, Texas Tech UniversityChapter 10: The Environmental Politics and Aesthetics of Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines: Capital, Mourning and DesireJohn Miller, University of SheffieldChapter 11: Jane Loudon’s Wildflowers, Popular Science, and the Victorian Culture of KnowledgeMary Ellen Bellanca, University of South Carolina SumterChapter 12: Falling in Love with Seaweeds: The Seaside Environments of George Eliot and G.H. LewesAnna Feuerstein, University of Hawai’i at Manoa Chapter 13: Agriculture and Ecology in Richard Jefferies’s Hodge and His MastersRonald D. Morrison, Morehead State UniversityChapter 14: Edward Carpenter, Henry Salt, and the Animal Limits of Victorian EnvironmentsJed Mayer, SUNY at New PaltzSources for Further StudyEditors and Contributors Index

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