Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Mountain Matter(s): Anticipatory Cartographies in Nineteenth-Century Mountain Literature

Chapter 3 Materiality, the Recessive Body and Wordsworth’s Sonnets “To Sleep”

Chapter 7 Mobile Materiality: The Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Mobile-Material Relations of Henry Mayhew’s 1851: or, the Adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboys

Chapter 8 Arboreal Thinking: George Eliot and the Matter of Life in Adam Bede

Chapter 9 “With Ears Alive to Every Sound”: Thomas Hardy’s Desperate Remedies and the (Im)materiality of Listening

Chapter 10 Praying Kin: Christina Rossetti and the Unity of Things

Chapter 11 Making Human Homes: Willa Cather on People and Wilderness

Chapter 12 “A smell! A true Florentine smell!”: Tourists’ Embodied Experiences in E. M. Forster’s Fiction

Chapter 13 Edward Thomas and Robert Frost: To Earthward