Literature and the Environment

Catalog description

Explores English and American nature writing from the neoclassical era to the present. The course investigates the ways in which different authors have seen and have expressed their relationships to their environments and the human relationship to the natural world in general. The course examines nature writing in a variety of genres-poetry, novels, and non-fiction prose essays. It also covers relevant work from contemporary eco-criticism of literature. P: Contemporary Composition course.