ENG 105: American Literature & Ecology

A study of American environmental literature and its imaginative forms in relation to environmental concepts, movements and philosophy, including changing ideas of nature and wilderness; representations of space and place; the deep ecology, ecofeminism, bioregionalism and environmental justice movements; urban nature; the impact of climate change and the Anthropocene; and the relation between human ideas and language and the more-than-human world. Includes attention to cultural issues of ecology, such as how ecological imagination affects sense of identity and social and economic practices. May include writers such as Thoreau, Muir, Aldo Leopold, Margaret Atwood, Linda Hogan and Helena Viramontes.