Historical Literature and the Environment

[0.50] credits · Undergraduate

Using literature and non-fiction prose written primarily before 1900, this course addresses the relationship between print culture and the environment. Readings are not confined to a specific national literature and may be chosen to address transnational thought or the non-national spaces of the ocean and polar regions. Topics will vary but may address industrialization, human/animal relationships, resource extraction, plantation ecologies, specimen collection, extinction, scientific thought, or encounter with unfamiliar environments.