EN 857 American Nature Writing (Fall: 3)
A course devoted to the historical, critical, and ecocritical study of environmental
literature in America. We will trace the development of the genre from the
romantic/quasi-scientific accounts of American wilderness in early writers
like Audubon, to the religio-philosophical mode of Emerson and the place-sense
of Thoreau, to the ecocentrism and environmental advocacy of more recent
writers (Annie Dillard, Wendell Berry, Gary Snyder) in our own era of natural
degradation and loss.
Robert Kern
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