Victorian Environments

1. Victorian Environments
Grace Moore, Michelle J. Smith

Part I. Acclimatization

2. The Environmentally Modified Self: Acclimatization and Identity in Early Victorian Literature
Roslyn Jolly

3. Rabbits and the Rise of Australian Nativism
Alexis Harley

4. “Our Antipodes”: Settler Colonial Environments in Victorian Travel Writing
Anna Johnston

Part II. Mapping

5. Ubiquitous Theft: The Consumption of London in Mayhew’s Underworld
Lesa Scholl

6. “Mountains might be marked by a drop of glue”: Blindness, Touch and Tactile Maps
Vanessa Warne

7. Exhuming the City: The Politics and Poetics of Graveyard Clearance
Haewon Hwang

8. Speculative Viewing: Victorians’ Encounters with Coral Reefs
Kathleen Davidson

Part III. Environmental Aesthetics

9. The Nature of Sensation Fiction: Botanical Textuality in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Doctor’s Wife (1864) and Rhoda Broughton’s Red as a Rose Is She (1870)
Kirby-Jane Hallum

10. Craft and the Colonial Environment: Natural Fancywork in the Australian Album
Molly Duggins

Part IV. Food, Hunger, and Contamination

11. Inorganic Bodies, Longing to Become Organic: Hunger and Environment in Thomas Carlyle’s The French Revolution

Hayley Rudkin

12. “Yet Was It Human?” Bankim, Hunter and the Victorian Famine Ideology of Anandamath

Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee

13. Adulteration and the Late-Victorian Culture of Risk in Jude the Obscure

Tim Dolin

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Cultural History