Mark Frost is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth. He writes widely on environment, literature, and culture in the nineteenth century, and published The Lost Companions and John Ruskin’s Guild of St George in 2014. Recent and forthcoming works include studies of Ruskin, Charles Dickens, William Morris, Richard Jefferies, and ecology in late Victorian science fiction. His current research is focused on pastoral in Victorian fiction.

After London is an imaginative foray into the evolutionary　 results of ecological catastrophe: the Victorian Oryx and Crake. A quasi-medieval romance set in a re-pastoralized England, and simultaneously a gem of avant-garde science fiction, Richard Jefferies’ masterpiece has been expertly brought back into the limelight by Frost’s fine scholarly edition.

• INTRODUCTION2. FURTHER READING3. A RICHARD JEFFERIES CHRONOLOGY4. AFTER LONDON; OR WILD ENGLANDPart I The Relapse into BarbarismI THE GREAT FORESTII THE ANIMALSIII MEN OF THE WOODS IV THE INVADERSV THE LAKEPart II Wild EnglandI SIR FELIXII THE HOUSE OF AQUILAIII THE STOCKADEIV THE CANOEV BARON AQUILAVI THE FOREST TRACKVII THE FOREST TRACK ContinuedVIII THYMA CASTLEIX SUPERSTITIONSX THE FEASTXI AURORAXII NIGHT IN THE FORESTXIII SAILING AWAYXIV THE STRAITSXV SAILING ONWARDSXVI THE CITYXVII THE CAMPXVIII THE KING’S LEVYXIX FIGHTINGXX IN DANGERXXI A VOYAGEXXII DISCOVERIESXXIII STRANGE THINGSXXIV FIERY VAPOURSXXV THE SHEPHERDSXXVI BOW AND ARROWXXVII SURPRISEDXXVIII FOR AURORA 5. Notes on the text6. Appendices: supplementary writings by Richard Jefferies

Mark Frost is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth. He writes widely on environment, literature, and culture in the nineteenth century, and published The Lost Companions and John Ruskin’s Guild of St George in 2014. Recent and forthcoming works include studies of Ruskin, Charles Dickens, William Morris, Richard Jefferies, and ecology in late Victorian science fiction. His current research is focused on pastoral in Victorian fiction.

After London is an imaginative foray into the evolutionary　 results of ecological catastrophe: the Victorian Oryx and Crake. A quasi-medieval romance set in a re-pastoralized England, and simultaneously a gem of avant-garde science fiction, Richard Jefferies’ masterpiece has been expertly brought back into the limelight by Frost’s fine scholarly edition.

• INTRODUCTION2. FURTHER READING3. A RICHARD JEFFERIES CHRONOLOGY4. AFTER LONDON; OR WILD ENGLANDPart I The Relapse into BarbarismI THE GREAT FORESTII THE ANIMALSIII MEN OF THE WOODS IV THE INVADERSV THE LAKEPart II Wild EnglandI SIR FELIXII THE HOUSE OF AQUILAIII THE STOCKADEIV THE CANOEV BARON AQUILAVI THE FOREST TRACKVII THE FOREST TRACK ContinuedVIII THYMA CASTLEIX SUPERSTITIONSX THE FEASTXI AURORAXII NIGHT IN THE FORESTXIII SAILING AWAYXIV THE STRAITSXV SAILING ONWARDSXVI THE CITYXVII THE CAMPXVIII THE KING’S LEVYXIX FIGHTINGXX IN DANGERXXI A VOYAGEXXII DISCOVERIESXXIII STRANGE THINGSXXIV FIERY VAPOURSXXV THE SHEPHERDSXXVI BOW AND ARROWXXVII SURPRISEDXXVIII FOR AURORA 5. Notes on the text6. Appendices: supplementary writings by Richard Jefferies