Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; I. Imagining Nature; 1. Introduction: Reflections on Transatlantic Exchanges, Subjectivity and Nature; 2. Romantic Influence and Nature Reconsidered: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau; II. Romantic Transactions: Subjects in Nature; 3. Dissolving Subjectivities: Imagined Selves in F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Keats; 4. Ghostly Selves, Light and Nature in William Faulkner: Wordsworthian Shadows and Byronic Shades; III. Romantic Transformations: Fictional Selves and Nature; 5. Fictions of the Self and Nature: Reading Romanticism in Saul Bellow; 6. Re-Imagined Pastoral Poetics: Narrative Structures and the Environment in Toni Morrison and William Wordsworth; Coda: Nature without Self: Beauty, Death and Subjectivity in the Poetics of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens; Bibliography; Index.