Acknowledgements Introduction: Theologies, Economies and Ecologies of the River, Bill Angus and Lisa Hopkins Part I: Conceptualising the River 1. Rivers of Milk, Honey, Tears, and Treasures: Mapping Salvation in Early Modern English Devotional Poetry, Brice Peterson 2. 'Plenteous rivers': Waterways as Resources, Threats and the Heart of the Community in Early Modern England, Daniel Gettings 3. Rivers and Contested Territories in the Works of Shakespeare, Rebecca Welshman Part II: Writing the River 4. The Navigation of the Trent and William Sampson's The Vow-Breaker (1636), Lisa Hopkins 5. Ship of Fools and Slow Boat to Hell: the Literary Voyages of the Gravesend Barge, Lindsay Ann Reid 6. Rivers, Monstrosity and National Identity in Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler, Melissa Caldwell Part III: Rivers and Money 7. 'Your Innes and Alehouses are Brookes and Rivers': John Taylor and Free-flowing Rivers of Ale, Bill Angus 8.

The Rose and the Riverside, Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley 9. 'As Water mill, made rags and shreds to sweate': Fluvial Bodies and Fluminous Geographies, Jemima Matthews Part IV: Ecocritical Approaches 10. 'Insatiable [Gourmandize] thus all things doth devour': Reading the Threat of Human Greed along the Rivers of Early Modern England, Emily J. Naish 11. Powtes, Protest and (Eco)politics in the English Fens, Esther Water 12. Shakespeare's Waterways: Premonitions of an Environmental Collapse, Sophie Chiari Conclusions: Rivers of life and death, Lisa Hopkins and Bill Angus Notes on Contributors.