Romantic ecocriticism : origin and legacies Introduction Dewey W. Hall Ecological horology: the nature of time during the romantic period Marcus Tomalin Naturalists interpretations: daffodils swallows and a floating island Dewey W. Hall It cannot be a sin to seek to save an earth born being : radical ecotheology in Byrons Heaven and earth J. Andrew Hubbell Process and presence: geological influence and innovation in Shelleys Mont Blanc Bryon Williams Perpetual analogies and occult harmonies : Ralph Waldo Emersons ecological selves Kaitlin Mondello An uncertain spirit of an unstable place: Frankenstein in the anthropocene Shalon Noble Wild West and western wildness: a transatlantic perspective Jude Frodyma Ecocentering the self: William Howitt Thoreau and the environmental imagination Ryan David Leack Toward a romantic poetics of acknowledgement: Wordsworth Clare and Aldo Leopolds land ethic Gary Harrison Small is beautiful: rethinking localism from Wordsworth to Eliot Alicia Carroll Byrons flower power: ecology and effeminacy in Sardanapalus Colin Carman The miseducation of Chris McCandless: romanticism reading and environmental education Lisa Ottum