English and Comparative Literature
Undergraduate Seminar
Course Time TBD
Reduce Your Footprint.” “Ditch The Past.” “Leave No Trace.” Calling for coexistent habitats, environmentalist discourses strive to decenter the human, and focus on the future. This class will not dispute the crucial need to reconsider how humans must interact with the Earth through mutually fortifying and thus lasting relationships. Instead, we will take a historicist approach to descriptions and discussions of people and the environment, to explore how nature writing has negotiated the absence or erasure of humans through its varied and vexed phases from 1492 to the nineteenth century.
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