Energy Humanities and Literature

Catalog description

How has the English-speaking world’s technological reliance on energies like wind, water, coal, and petroleum shaped literature, and how has literature in turn shaped arguments and assumptions about their effects? Versions of this course may vary in genre and scope, from a focus on a particular period or region to an expansive global view on artistic and technological inventions through the past, present, and future. Covers the Interdisciplinary topic for the English major.