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This article claims that Mary Shelley presents ecological concern through the apocalyptic narrative of The Last Man. While many critics have emphasized the political, gender, and psychoanalytic dimensions of the novel, I argue that the previous studies have not paid due attention to Lionel Verney’s close association with nature throughout his narrative. This thesis takes ecocritical approach to interpret Lionel’s ability to survive the global plague epidemic. Estranged from nature by Adrian’s tutelage, Lionel begins to see nature as an outlet to project the mind. Interpreting the plague as an ecological crisis caused by the Enlightenment ideals, I suggest Lionel’s eventual realization of the materiality of nature can be understood as Shelley’s own response to the Enlightenment thinkers’ reduction of nature as a sphere to aggrandize human subjectivity. In the rising crisis of the plague, the last man contemplates upon the meaning of dwelling upon the earth, which can be related to Martin Heidegger’s philosophy of dwelling. The last man imagines an alternative mode to reconcile the damaged relationship between humanity and nature.