Chapter 1 Introduction: Representing Victorian Environmental Nightmares

Chapter 2 The Assumption of the Dragon: Ruskin’s Mythic Vision

Chapter 3 Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Failed Pastoral and the Environments of the Poor

Chapter 4 Pip’s Nightmare and Orlick’s Dream

Chapter 5 Frances Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans and the EcoGothic

Chapter 6 James Thomson’s Deserts

Chapter 7 “Tragic ring-barked forests” and the “Wicked Wood”: Haunting Environmental Anxiety in Late Nineteenth-Century Australian Literature

Chapter 8 “Rivers Change Like Nations”: Reading Eco-Apocalypse in The Waters of Edera

Chapter 9 Disaster and Deserts: Children’s Natural History as Nightmare and Dream

Chapter 10 Imperial Ecologies and Extinction in H. G. Wells’s Island Stories

Chapter 11 Human Intervention and More-Than-Human Humanity in H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau

Chapter 12 Nowhere to Go: Caught Between Nature and Culture in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales