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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction: Representing Victorian Environmental Nightmares; A Note on Further Study; Works Cited; Part I At Home; Chapter 2 The Assumption of the Dragon: Ruskin's Mythic Vision; Works Cited; Chapter 3 Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Failed Pastoral and the Environments of the Poor; Works Cited; Chapter 4 Pip's Nightmare and Orlick's Dream; Works Cited; Part II Abroad; Chapter 5 Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans and the EcoGothic; Works Cited; Chapter 6 James Thomson's Deserts
Introduction: Desert, Apocalypse, and Ecology"As I Came Through the Desert Thus It Was": Thomson's Apocalypse; "Between the Monster's Large Quiescent Paws": Thomson's Egypt; "A Voice from the Nile": Thomson's More-Than-Human Ecology; Works Cited; Chapter 7 "Tragic ring-barked forests" and the "Wicked Wood": Haunting Environmental Anxiety in Late Nineteenth-Century Australian Literature; Works Cited; Chapter 8 "Rivers Change Like Nations": Reading Eco-Apocalypse in The Waters of Edera; Ouida's Proto-Environmentalism; Eco-Apocalypse Now; Eschatological and Ecofeminist Ends; Works Cited
Part III Imagined LandscapesChapter 9 Disaster and Deserts: Children's Natural History as Nightmare and Dream; Madam How and Lady Why and Victorian Children's Natural History; Feminine Wisdom, Masculine Knowledge: Lady Why and the Tree of Unreason; Injustice or Just Deserts?; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 10 Imperial Ecologies and Extinction in H. G. Wells's Island Stories; "This Beastly Island": Anti-Robinsonades, Imperial Ecologies, and Evolutionary Hierarchies; "I Didn't Mean to Be Chased About a Desert Island by Any Damned Anachronisms": Colonization, Competition, and Extinction
Works CitedChapter 11 Human Intervention and More-Than-Human Humanity in H. G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau; Wells on Science and Intervention; Human Intervention and Storytelling in the Anthropocene; Grappling with a More-Than-Human Humanity; The Limits and Ethics of Realism; "The Man Alone"?; Works Cited; Chapter 12 Nowhere to Go: Caught Between Nature and Culture in Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales; Works Cited; Chapter 13 Ecocrisis and Slow Violence: Anthropocene Readings of Late-Victorian Disaster Narratives; Eco-Catastrophe; Boundaries and Intersections; Slow Violence; Works Cited
Introduction: Desert, Apocalypse, and Ecology"As I Came Through the Desert Thus It Was": Thomson's Apocalypse; "Between the Monster's Large Quiescent Paws": Thomson's Egypt; "A Voice from the Nile": Thomson's More-Than-Human Ecology; Works Cited; Chapter 7 "Tragic ring-barked forests" and the "Wicked Wood": Haunting Environmental Anxiety in Late Nineteenth-Century Australian Literature; Works Cited; Chapter 8 "Rivers Change Like Nations": Reading Eco-Apocalypse in The Waters of Edera; Ouida's Proto-Environmentalism; Eco-Apocalypse Now; Eschatological and Ecofeminist Ends; Works Cited
Part III Imagined LandscapesChapter 9 Disaster and Deserts: Children's Natural History as Nightmare and Dream; Madam How and Lady Why and Victorian Children's Natural History; Feminine Wisdom, Masculine Knowledge: Lady Why and the Tree of Unreason; Injustice or Just Deserts?; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 10 Imperial Ecologies and Extinction in H. G. Wells's Island Stories; "This Beastly Island": Anti-Robinsonades, Imperial Ecologies, and Evolutionary Hierarchies; "I Didn't Mean to Be Chased About a Desert Island by Any Damned Anachronisms": Colonization, Competition, and Extinction
Works CitedChapter 11 Human Intervention and More-Than-Human Humanity in H. G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau; Wells on Science and Intervention; Human Intervention and Storytelling in the Anthropocene; Grappling with a More-Than-Human Humanity; The Limits and Ethics of Realism; "The Man Alone"?; Works Cited; Chapter 12 Nowhere to Go: Caught Between Nature and Culture in Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales; Works Cited; Chapter 13 Ecocrisis and Slow Violence: Anthropocene Readings of Late-Victorian Disaster Narratives; Eco-Catastrophe; Boundaries and Intersections; Slow Violence; Works Cited