Victorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early
Environmental Justice aims to take up the challenge that Lawrence
Buell lays out in The Future of Environmental Criticism:
Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (2005). Buell
decries: "For in order to bring 'environmental justice into
ecocriticism,' a few more articles or conference sessions won't
suffice. There must be 'a fundamental rethinking and reworking of
the field as a whole'" (Buell 113). While discussions about nature
conservation and preservation have been important within the
context of ecocriticism, Buell asserts that the holy grail for the
field is actually how literary critics engage in discourse about
questions of place as space humanized for the purpose of tracing,
disclosing, and advancing the important issue of environmental
justice-as it applies to human beings, animals, and plants. The
"fundamental reworking" or shift in the field of Victorian Studies
really has to do with the dearth of ecocritical publishing about
seminal authors and literary texts. Victorian Ecocriticism aims to
participate in filling that vacuum, lack, or lacuna by featuring
current research about the Victorian era from an ecocritical
perspective. Victorian Ecocriticism hopes to identify, establish,
and organize its content based on six themes: Ecocrisis,
Ecofeminism, Ecogothicism, Ecohistoricism, Ecotheology, and
Ecological Interdependence. The edited collection, thus, has two
aims. First, selected places among others featured in the edition
will provide environmental contexts, often with political
implications: American rural landscape (e.g., Walden Pond),
Australian mines, British hill-country, metropolis, mill towns, the
sea, and the woods. Second, the edition includes discussions about
various instances of early environmental justice evident during the
mid-nineteenth century such as, but not limited to: anti-railway
campaigns, biological egalitarianism, labor disputes due to adverse
working conditions, patterns of displacement, reactions to
Victorian scientism, resistance to enclosure, and working class
education. Victorian Ecocriticism is an interdisciplinary edition.
It focuses on Victorian literature as the foundational discipline
linked to various disciplines such as ecology, evolutionary
biology, natural history, and soil science. The topics are
wide-ranging, significant, and contemporary discussing the politics
of place as well as early environmental justice.
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