"An important contribution both to the growing field of interdisciplinary scholarship on ecofeminism in literature and to a new wave of fin-de-siècle studies that seeks to revisit and reconfigure the period by challenging twentieth-century modernist assumptions about late-century literature and culture."-- James Diedrick , Agnes Scott College, author of Mathilde Blind: Late Victorian Culture and the Woman of Letters "Performs an important function in reclaiming some non-canonical writers who, nevertheless, were generally much better known in their period and who, it is convincingly argued, can speak to contemporary ecological concerns."-- John Parham , University of Worcester, author of Green Man Hopkins: Poetry and the Victorian Ecological Imagination " Reconceiving Nature makes important contributions to our understanding of several late-Victorian women poets. Murphy interweaves extensive close readings of individual poems with reflections on a diverse range of ecofeminist scholarship since the 1970s."-- Lee Behlman , Associate Professor of English, Montclair State University, co-editor of Victorian Literature: Criticism and Debates.