Landscape and Literature 1830–1914

1. Introduction: The Shifting Landscape
Roger Ebbatson

Part I. Tennysonian

2. ‘The Sea-Fairies’: The Sirens and the Administered Society
Roger Ebbatson

3. ‘Impassioned Song’: Arthur Hallam and Lyric Poetry
Roger Ebbatson

4.
Locksley Hall: Progress and Destitution
Roger Ebbatson

5. ‘The Northern Farmer’: Language and Homeland
Roger Ebbatson

6. Charles Tennyson Turner: Lyricism and Modernity
Roger Ebbatson

Part II. Hardy, Jefferies, Ruskin

7.
Far From the Madding Crowd: Swampy Decomposition and Female Individualism
Roger Ebbatson

8. ‘In Front of the Landscape’: Spectral Ressentiment

Roger Ebbatson

9. ‘A Singer Asleep’: Hardy’s Envoi to Decadence
Roger Ebbatson

10. The Machine in the Wheatfield: Steam-Power in the Victorian Countryside
Roger Ebbatson

11. Prophetic Landscapes: Hardy and Jefferies
Roger Ebbatson

12. The Springs of Wandel: Ruskin, Proust, Benjamin
Roger Ebbatson

Part III. The South Country

13. Traversing the South Country, 1850–1914
Roger Ebbatson

14. The Spiritual Geography of Edward Thomas
Roger Ebbatson

Avainsanat: Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature