Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Chapter Before the First: Dwelling and the Uncanny

Chapter 3 English Losses: Thomas Hardy and the Memory of Wessex

Chapter 4 All You Need Is Love? Edward Thomas, Apostrophizing the Other

Chapter 6 ‘Can you tell me where my country lies?’: Re-membering, Re-presenting the Forgotten

Chapter 7 ‘Chewing through your wimpey dreams’: Whimsy, Loss, and the ‘experience’ of the Rural in English Music and Art, 1966–1976

Chapter 8 ‘And for a moment’: Voicing the Landscape with Alice Oswald and John Burnside

Chapter 9 ‘It was suddenly hard winter’: Crossing the Field with John Burnside

Chapter 10 Place and Displacement: Julian Barnes and the Haunted Self

Chapter 11 Afterword