Introduction: Ecological Formalism; or, Love among the Ruins
Nathan K. Hensley and Philip Steer, 1
Part I Method
1. Drama, Ecology, and the Ground of Empire: The Play of Indigo
Sukanya Banerjee, 21
2. Mourning Species: In Memoriam in an Age of Extinction
Jesse Oak Taylor, 42
3. Signatures of the Carboniferous: The Literary Forms of Coal
Nathan K. Hensley and Philip Steer, 63
Part II Form
4. Fixed Capital and the Flow: Water Power, Steam Power, and The Mill on the Floss
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, 85
5. "Form Against Force": Sustainability and Organicism in the Work of John Ruskin
Deanna K. Kreisel, 101
6. Mapping the "Invisible Region, Far Away" in Dombey and Son
Adam Grener, 121
Part III Scale
7. How We Might Live: Utopian Ecology in William Morris and Samuel Butler
Benjamin Morgan, 139
8. From Specimen to System: Botanical Scale and the Environmental Sublime in Joseph Dalton Hooker's Himalayas
Lynn Voskuil, 161
9. "Infi nitesimal Lives": Thomas Hardy's Scale Effects
Aaron Rosenberg, 182
Part IV Futures
10. Electric Dialectics: Delany's Atlantic Materialism
Monique Allewaert, 203
11. Satire's Ecology
Teresa Shewry, 223
Afterword: They Would Have Ended by Burning Their Own Globe
Karen Pinkus, 241
Acknowledgments 249
List of Contributors 251
Index 253
