Introduction

1-20

The chapter before the first

dwelling and the uncanny

21-40

English losses

thomas hardy and the memory of Wessex

43-82

All you need is love?

Edward Thomas, apostrophizing the other

83-102

"A parallel dimension"

the haunted streets and spectral poethics of the neo-victorian novel

105-142

"Can you tell me where my country lies?'

re-membering, re-presenting the forgotten

145-166

"Chewing through your wimpey dreams"

whimsy, loss, and the "experience' of the rural in English music and art, 1966–1976

167-181

"And for a moment"

voicing the landscape with alice oswald and john burnside

185-202

"It was suddenly hard winter"

crossing the field with john burnside

203-214

Place and displacement

Julian Barnes and the haunted self

215-232

Afterword

Lubomir Doležel

233-238