The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature and the Environment

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Dennis Denisoff (University of Tulsa)

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English

Cambridge University Press
07 May 2026

Literary companions; Fiction: special features; Environmentalist thought & ideology

Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature

Today's environmental decimation and climate crises have arisen from our drive for individual material prosperity. We even appreciate nature primarily for its fulfilment of our interests, whether economic productivity, aesthetic pleasure, or personal well-being. And yet, we still ask how we have reached this dire ecological condition and what it is that has kept us from acting effectively to maintain a thriving and diverse biosphere. This collection of essays by major scholars from around the world analyzes how the industrial, imperialist Victorian era gave rise to today's unwillingness to move beyond our acquisitive drive. But it also explores the Victorians' initiation of the modern environmentalist movement, formulation of the first legislation defending rights of nonhuman animals, and invention of literary forms for contesting environmental degradation. In this most unlikely of eras, the volume uncovers both valuable insights into the limitations of our own environmentalism and innovative suggestions for overcoming them.

Edited by: Dennis Denisoff (University of Tulsa)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 649g
ISBN: 9781009412841
ISBN 10: 1009412841
Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
Pages: 332
Publication Date: 07 May 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dennis Denisoff is McFarlin Chair of English at the University of Tulsa and recipient of the President's Award from both the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association and the North American Victorian Studies Association. He is a past Sarwan Sahota Distinguished Scholar at Toronto Metropolitan University, a recent Visiting Distinguished Researcher at Queen Mary University of London, and the 2025 Ruth and Lillian Marino Chair of the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. He is the author of Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910 (Cambridge University Press, 2021).