Foreword / Laura Dassow Walls. Part I. Place in the British Isles. Introduction: The matter of place consciousness / Dewey W. Hall -- Railways, tourism, and preservation in the Victorian Lake District: from Wordsworth to Rawnsley / Saeko Yoshikawa -- Wending homeward: the material turn in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre / Adrian Tait -- Hard times: factory education, factory system, and the Preston Strike / Dewey W. Hall -- The politics of place attachment and the laboring body in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'urbervilles / Jillmarie Murphy
Part II. Place in Australia, Newfoundland, and America. Antipodal Ecology: Colonial landscaping in Victorian fiction / Julie M. Barst -- Ecotheological morality in Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies / Akemi Yoshida -- Philip Henry Gosse, Newfoundland, and the unveiling wonders / Sue Edney -- Seeing soils / Marlee Fuhrmann -- "Different shades of green": Elizabeth Gaskell's ecogothic short fictions / Michelle Deininger and Natalie Rose Cox