Titlebook: Victorian Environmental Nightmares; Laurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14042-7Industrialization; Disaster; Degradation; John Ruskin; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Australian Literature;

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Pip’s Nightmare and Orlick’s Dream. The dirt, mud, smoke, and waste that are such salient, memorable aspects of the city in those texts are here ignored, muted, or only glancingly described, as if Pip’s program of self-fashioning depends upon a kind of willed forgetting of the nature of the place in which it is to happen. In this an

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“Tragic ring-barked forests” and the “Wicked Wood”: Haunting Environmental Anxiety in Late Nineteentd Wood.” The image is most famously immortalized in Australian literature in Dorothea Mackellar’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century poem “My Country” in the lines, “The tragic ring-barked forests / Stark white beneath the?moon.” This chapter explores the figure of the ringbarked forest, the dying tree,

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“Rivers Change Like Nations”: Reading Eco-Apocalypse in river is the signature image through which the Victorian novelist powers a myth of community. “Ice forms above,” declares George Levine, but “rivers flow below, fertilizing the land, bearing human traffic, building human communities” in Victorian novels such as . and .(137). In these novels, water f