Definitions and Abbreviations
Introduction
I.Literary Reverberations between England and China
II.Nature as a Novel Interest
III.Ziran:A Taoist Conception of Nature
IV.The Comparative Methodology:Potential and Principle
V.Ecocriticism and Taoism
Chapter 1 The Relational Self in Symbiosis:Far from the Madding Crowd and Fengzi
I.Novels of Character and Ziranx
II.A Relational Self and the Secularised Religion of Nature
III.A Reconceptualisation of Pastoralism
IV.Conclusion
Chapter 2 The Aesthetics of Silence:The Woodlanders and The Border Town
I.Relative Silence of Speech
II.Novelistic Lyricism?
III.The Seasonal Tempo
IV.Nature-Witnessing
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