Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. List of Illustrations XI
4. A Prefatory Note XV
5. Introduction XVII
6. THE MIND'S EYE
7. Images of Nature: A Photo-Essay 3
8. THE TAMING OF SPACE
9. Felicitous Space: The Cottage Controversy 29
10. Imagination in the Suburb 49
11. The Domestication of Nature: Five Houses in the Lake District 68
12. EXPLORATIONS
13. The Arctic Sublime 95
14. Mid-Victorians amongst the Alps 113
15. High and Low: Ruskin and the Novelists 137
16. "A Surprising Transformation": Dickens and the Hearth 153
17. The Interior Garden and John Stuart Mill 171
18. SYSTEMS OF KNOWLEDGE
19. The Rich Economy of Nature: Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century 189
20. Concepts of Physical Nature: John Herschel to Karl Pearson 201
21. The Human Significance of Biology: Carpenter, Darwin, and the vera causa 216
22. The Humanist at Bay: The Arnold-Huxley Debate 231
23. A Science against Sciences: Ruskin's Floral Mythology 246
24. The Perfection of Species" and Hardy's Tess 259
25. REDEFINITIONS
26. Victorian Landscape Painting: A Change in Outlook 281
27. "Half Sick of Shadows": The Aesthetic Dialogue in Pre-Raphaelite Painting 309
28. The Rainbow: A Problematic Image 341
29. The Sacramental Imagination 370
30. Mutations of the Wordsworthian Child of Nature 391
31. Browning and the Altered Romantic Landscape 426
32. Nature and the Linguistic Moment 440
33. Lawrence's Vital Source: Nature and Character in Thomas Hardy 455
34. "That strange abstraction, "Nature": T. S. Eliot's Victorian Inheritance 470
35. Afterglow and Aftermath 489
36. Contributors 501
37. Index 505