Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Victorian experience of environmental injustice
Chapter 1. Thomas Carlyle’s ‘Condition-of-England Question’
Chapter 2. Friedrich Engels, environmental classism, and ‘social murder’
Chapter 3. Environmental determinism and the Chartist counter-narrative
Chapter 4. Seeking justice in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House
Chapter 5. Beyond class, gender, species? Charles Dickens’s Hard Times
Chapter 6. John Ruskin’s Unto this Last: Towards a ‘deeper felicity’
Conclusion: Looking forward
Index
Biography
Adrian Tait is a UK-based independent scholar and ecocritic with a particular interest in Victorian literary responses to the impact of industrial modernity, and its relationship to questions of environmental and ecological injustice.
