Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Practical ecocriticism and the Victorian text -- 1 Reading nature: John Ruskin, environment, and the ecological impulse -- 2 Between "bounded field" and "brooding star": a study of Tennyson's topography -- 3 Celebration and longing: Robert Browning and the nonhuman world -- 4 "Truth to nature": the pleasures and dangers of the environment in Christina Rossetti's poetry -- 5 The zoocentric ecology of Hardy's poetic consciousness -- 6 Early Dickens and ecocriticism: the social novelist and the nonhuman -- 7 Bleak intra-actions: Dickens, turbulence, material ecology -- 8 Dark nature: a critical return to Brontë country -- 9 Anna Sewell's Black Beauty: reframing the pastoral tradition -- 10 The environmental politics and aesthetics of Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines: capital, mourning, and desire -- 11 Jane Loudon's wildflowers, popular science, and the Victorian culture of knowledge -- 12 Falling in love with seaweeds: the seaside environments of George Eliot and G.H. Lewes -- 13 Agriculture and ecology in Richard Jefferies's Hodge and His Masters -- 14 Edward Carpenter, Henry Salt, and the animal limits of Victorian environments -- Sources for further study -- Editors and Contributors -- Index