Landscape and Literature 1830-1914: Nature, Text, Aura

Introduction: The Shifting Landscape PART I: TENNYSONIAN 1. 'The Sea-Fairies': The Sirens and the Administered Society 2. 'Impassioned Song': Arthur Hallam and Lyric Poetry 3. Locksley Hall: Progress and Destitution 4. 'The Northern Farmer': Language and Homeland 5. Charles Tennyson Turner: Lyricism and Modernity PART II: HARDY, JEFFERIES, RUSKIN 6. Far From the Madding Crowd: Swampy Decomposition and Female Individualism 7. 'In Front of the Landscape': Spectral Ressentiment 8. 'A Singer Asleep': Hardy's Envoi to Decadence 9. The Machine in the Wheatfield 10. Prophetic Landscapes: Hardy and Jefferies 11. The Springs of Wandel: Ruskin, Proust, Benjamin PART III: THE SOUTH COUNTRY 12. Traversing the South Country, 1850-1914 13. The Spiritual Geography of Edward Thomas Bibliography