Anna Burton is an early career researcher and teaching fellow at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests include long nineteenth-century literature, natural history, nature writing, and the afterlives of the ‘Picturesque’.

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• IntroductionChapter OneA Silvicultural TraditionSingle Trees and Remarkable SpecimensFrom Clumps to Forests: Trees in CombinationGilpin and the New ForestA Changing Woodscape: Preservation and Planting into the Nineteenth CenturyChapter TwoArboreal Boundaries and Silvicultural ‘Improvement’ in the Literary Landscapes of Jane AustenSilvicultural Dynamism: Arboreal Conversations and CharacterisationsTrees, Improvement, and Maintaining Arboreal BoundariesChapter ThreeThe Presence and Absence of Trees in the Writings of Elizabeth GaskellThe Topographies of Trees in Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras and Ruth‘delicious air’ and the Green Belt in North and SouthChapter FourReading Ancient Trees and Arboreal Strata in The WoodlandersArboreal Accumulation and the ‘Billy Wilkins’ TreeReading Stratigraphical Woodscapes: The Intersection of Aesthetics and GeologyChapter Five‘Such is the Vale of Blackmoor’: Navigating Trees, Memory, and Prospect in Tess of the D’UrbervillesTopographical Perambulation and the Arboreal MarginAccumulating Prospects and Retrospective Reflection, Tess as Active SpectatorConclusion

Anna Burton is an early career researcher and teaching fellow at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests include long nineteenth-century literature, natural history, nature writing, and the afterlives of the ‘Picturesque’.

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• IntroductionChapter OneA Silvicultural TraditionSingle Trees and Remarkable SpecimensFrom Clumps to Forests: Trees in CombinationGilpin and the New ForestA Changing Woodscape: Preservation and Planting into the Nineteenth CenturyChapter TwoArboreal Boundaries and Silvicultural ‘Improvement’ in the Literary Landscapes of Jane AustenSilvicultural Dynamism: Arboreal Conversations and CharacterisationsTrees, Improvement, and Maintaining Arboreal BoundariesChapter ThreeThe Presence and Absence of Trees in the Writings of Elizabeth GaskellThe Topographies of Trees in Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras and Ruth‘delicious air’ and the Green Belt in North and SouthChapter FourReading Ancient Trees and Arboreal Strata in The WoodlandersArboreal Accumulation and the ‘Billy Wilkins’ TreeReading Stratigraphical Woodscapes: The Intersection of Aesthetics and GeologyChapter Five‘Such is the Vale of Blackmoor’: Navigating Trees, Memory, and Prospect in Tess of the D’UrbervillesTopographical Perambulation and the Arboreal MarginAccumulating Prospects and Retrospective Reflection, Tess as Active SpectatorConclusion

Anna Burton is an early career researcher and teaching fellow at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests include long nineteenth-century literature, natural history, nature writing, and the afterlives of the ‘Picturesque’.

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• IntroductionChapter OneA Silvicultural TraditionSingle Trees and Remarkable SpecimensFrom Clumps to Forests: Trees in CombinationGilpin and the New ForestA Changing Woodscape: Preservation and Planting into the Nineteenth CenturyChapter TwoArboreal Boundaries and Silvicultural ‘Improvement’ in the Literary Landscapes of Jane AustenSilvicultural Dynamism: Arboreal Conversations and CharacterisationsTrees, Improvement, and Maintaining Arboreal BoundariesChapter ThreeThe Presence and Absence of Trees in the Writings of Elizabeth GaskellThe Topographies of Trees in Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras and Ruth‘delicious air’ and the Green Belt in North and SouthChapter FourReading Ancient Trees and Arboreal Strata in The WoodlandersArboreal Accumulation and the ‘Billy Wilkins’ TreeReading Stratigraphical Woodscapes: The Intersection of Aesthetics and GeologyChapter Five‘Such is the Vale of Blackmoor’: Navigating Trees, Memory, and Prospect in Tess of the D’UrbervillesTopographical Perambulation and the Arboreal MarginAccumulating Prospects and Retrospective Reflection, Tess as Active SpectatorConclusion