Introduction : Sustainability and the Victorian anthropocene / Wendy Parkins
A not so "stationary state" : John Stuart Mill's sustainability imagination / John Parham
Sustaining The earthly paradise / John Holmes
Transatlantic dialogues in sustainability : Edward Carpenter, Henry David Thoreau and the literature of simplification / Peter Adkins
"Whales and all that move in the waters" : Christina Rossetti's ecology of grace / Emma Mason
Mindfulness in early Victorian travel writing / Roslyn Jolly
The country in the city : Dickens and the idyllic river / Mary L. Shannon
Guano, science and Victorian high farming : an agro-ecological perspective / Lesley Kinsley
"Human language can make a shift : late-Victorian tentacular cities and the genealogy of "sprawl" / Matthew Ingleby
Aestheticism and decadence in Patrick Geddes's socioeconomics / Michael Shaw
The Land that England lost : W.H. Hudson's The purple land, Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, and the romance of the outlands / Paul Young
The queer ecology of George Egerton's neo-paganism / Dennis Denisoff
Afterword : Interglacial Victorians / Gillen D'Arcy Wood.