ENGL 635
Early Modern Texts
Winter 2027 · ENGL 635 LEC B1: Early Modern Texts - Shakespeare and Ecological Crisis; C. Sale · Course preview · Future term
Topics
- Shakespeare
- Ecological crisis
- Environmental justice
Readings
- Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Macbeth; Lear; The Tempest; Hamlet.
- Moore, Jason. “Capitalocene, Part 1: On the Nature and Origins of Our Ecological Crisis.”
- Pope Francis. Laudato Si’. 2015. Selections.
- Carton, Wim, and Andreas Malm. The Long Heat. 2025. Selections.
- Davis, Mike. Planet of Slums. Verso, 2006. Selections.
- Ghosh, Amitav. The Great Derangement. 2016; The Nutmeg’s Curse. 2021. Selections.
- Grove, Jairus Victor. Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World. Duke University Press, 2019. Selections.
- Guenther, Genevieve. The Language of Climate Politics. Oxford University Press, 2024. Selections.
- Hickel, Jason. Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. 2020. Selections.
- Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass. Milkweed Press, 2013. Selections.
- Monbiot, George. Regenesis. Penguin, 2022. Selections.
- Otto, Friederike. Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality. 2025. Selections.
- Wallace Wells, David. The Uninhabitable Earth. 2019. Selections.
- Howe, Diamanti, and Moore, editors. Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions. Punctum Press, 2023. Selections.
- Yunkaporta, Tyson. Sand Talk. HarperCollins, 2020. Selections.
- Lemon, Rebecca, and Carolyn Sale, editors. Shakespeare and Ecological Crisis: Interventions in the Face of Climate Emergency. Essays in progress.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- ENGL 426 STUDIES IN LITERARY AND CULTURAL HISTORIES / ENGL 635 Early Modern Texts · Reading-list link; contents not retrieved ↗
- ENGL 567 LEC A1: Literary History - Mysticism, Hunger, and the Irish Gothic; R. Brazeau ↗2026
- ENGL 635 Early Modern Texts · Reading-list link; contents not retrieved ↗
- Published preview for a future term as of retrieval; reading choices may change.