Review: John MacNeil Miller, The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science. University of Virginia Press, 2024. 228pp. ISBN 9780813951782, $32.50.

Joshua Fagan is a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington, specialising in American and British literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with a particular focus on shifting conceptions of history, ecology, and science. His current project focuses on literary utilizations of Darwinian ideas of time and scale in response to the impermanence and overstimulation of the fin-de-siècle world. He has published on authors from William Morris and H. G. Wells to Mark Twain, and his writing on the relation between the premodern and naturalistic transcendence in Robert Frost’s poetry received the Lesley Lee Francis Prize from The Robert Frost Review.