The Cambridge companion to Victorian literature and the environment - Denisoff, Dennis, 1961- (Cambridge University Press, 2027)
"The Victorians invented environmentalism but struggled with their human-centred perspectives and values. This collection of essays on 19th-century literature and environmental history introduces readers to the ways in which their struggles, insights, and innovations may shed revealing light on the state of environmentalism today"--
Novel geologies : Victorian fiction in catastrophic times / Jesse Oak Taylor -- Ecogothic : Dislocations of scale / Roger Luckhurst -- Entropy, exhaustion, and degeneration in science fiction and decadence / Benjamin Morgan -- Blue ecologies / Cannon Schmitt -- Aesthetic form and global systems / Nathan K. Hensley -- Agricultural ecologies / Grace Moore -- Empire, environment, and botanical art in British India / Lindsay Wells -- The agricultural roots of realism : Lal Behari Day's Govinda Samanta / Sukanya Banerjee -- British values, indigenous knowledge, and settler colonial environments / Philip Steer -- Floral poetics / Catherine Maxwell -- Vegetal ontology in Emily Dickinson's poetic herbarium / Michael Marder -- Queer ecology and the animal in Walter Pater and William Sharp / Dennis Denisoff -- Plant agency / Elizabeth Chang -- "A little in the mining way" : Victorian literatures of extraction / Elizabeth Carolyn Miller -- The Victorian Capitalocene : Olive Schreiner on the frontier / Ella Mershon -- The art of extinction : Naturalizing colonization and Walter Buller's A History of the Birds of New Zealand*/ Wendy Parkins -- Land use : The farm, the common and the wild / Carolyn Lesjak -- Pollution / Allen MacDuffie -- Art and environment / Kate Flint -- Climate and empire / Adeline Johns-Putra -- The uncomfortable commons in Lewis Carroll and William Morris / Barbara Leckie -- Form and activism / Caroline Levine.
Keywords: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Ecology in literature; Environmental literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism; Literary criticism