Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-ix

Dedication

pp x-x

Notes on Contributors

pp xi-xiv

Introduction: Environmentalism, Class and Nature

pp 1-14

Part I - Green Imperialism

pp 15-16

1 - The Environmental Aesthetics of the Chinese Garden

pp 17-33

2 - Orientalising the British Class System: Exploring the ‘Chinese’ Landscapes of Sir William Chambers, 1740–1775

pp 34-59

3 - Ecogothic Chinatown

pp 60-77

4 - Climate Change, Inequality and Romantic Catastrophe

pp 78-92

5 - Governing from the Country House: Landscape and the Aesthetics of Colonial Rule in India, 1780–1830

pp 93-112

6 - On the Prowl: Tigers and the Tea Planter in British India

pp 113-138

Part II - Land and Creature Ethics

pp 139-140

7 - William Cowper and Suburban Environmental Aesthetics

pp 141-156

8 - Exclusionary Landscapes: Shenstone and the Development of a Romantic Aesthetics of Enclosure

pp 157-171

9 - A World of Fire and Drought: Ecosocialism, Improvement and Apocalypse in James Woodhouse’s Crispinus Scriblerus

pp 172-194

10 - Clifton Walks: Milkmaids Real and Imaginary

pp 195-210

11 - Blake and the Pastoral-Georgic Tradition

pp 211-229

12 - Untidying the Landscape: Romantic Poetics, Class and Non-Human Nature

pp 230-248

13 - Sensing the Population Debate: Poverty, Ecology and the Senses in Malthus and his Critics

pp 249-271

Afterword: ‘A tear to Nature’s tawny sons is due’: Alexander Wilson’s The Foresters and Romantic Period Uprootings

pp 272-279

Index

pp 280-296