In common things : commerce, culture, and ecology in British Romantic literature / Matthew Rowney.

Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
IN COMMON THINGS
Introduction
1 "The Bones of the World": Mary Wollstonecraft's Social Geology
2 Broken Arbour: Deforestation and the Cultural History of Trees in "The Ruined Cottage"
3 "Strange Look'd it There!": The Paradox of the Palm in the Poetry of Felicia Hemans
4 Preserver and Destroyer: Salt in The History of Mary Prince
5 "Lin'd with Moss": John Clare's Rhizomatic Poetics
Conclusion: Plastic Rime
Notes
Works Cited
Index