Syllabus/achievement requirements

A. Shared Texts with 2532

• Dan Alloso, American Environmental History, Part One.
• Bill McKibben, American Earth.
• Chris Magoc, “Nature’s Nation: The American Landscape and the Nature Writing Tradition” in So Glorious a Landscape: nature and the Environment in American History and Culture. Wilmington, Del: SR Books, 2002: 53-73 [ELECTRONIC]

B. Additional texts

• Gary Kulik, “Dams, Fish and Farmers: Defense of Public Rights in Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island,” in The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation, ed. S. Hahn and J. Prude, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985:25-50. [ELECTRONIC]
• Mumford, “Garden, Home, Mother,” in Technics and Human Development, vol. 1 of The Myth of the Machine, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanvich, 1966: 142-162. [ELECTRONIC]
• Richard Slotkin, “Myth and Literature in a New World,” in Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1973: 3-24. [ELECTRONIC]
• Mark Luccarelli, “The Hudson Valley: Landscape,” in The Eclipse of Urbanism and the Greening of Public Space, Winwick, Cambridgeshire, England: White Horse Press, 2016: 79-125. [ELECTRONIC]
• Donald Worster, “Preface” and “A Naturalist in Concord,” in Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985 (2^nd ed.): vii-xii, 58-76. [ELECTRONIC]
• Sherman Paul, “Thoreau’s Walden,” from Repossessing and Renewing, Baton Rouge: LSU, 1976:14-56. [ELECTRONIC]
• Brian Morris, “The Wooing of the Earth,” in Pioneers of Ecological Humanism, Sussex, England: Book Guild Publishing, 2012: 149-166. [ELECTRONIC]
• Yi-Fu Tuan, “Spaciousness and Crowding,” in Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1977: 51-66. [ELECTRONIC]
• Leo Marx, “Sleepy Hollow, 1844” in The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. London: Oxford University Press, 1964: 3-33. [ELECTRONIC]
• Lawrence Buell, “Walden’s Environmental Projects” in The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing and the Formation of American Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1995: 115-139. [ELECTRONIC]
• Roderick Nash, “John Muir: Publicizer” in Wilderness and the American Mind. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982 (3^rd ed.): 122-140. [ELECTRONIC]
• Mark Luccarelli, “Landscape, Anti-Landscape and the Western Political Imagination,” in The Anti-Landscape, ed. by D. Nye and S. Elkind, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 61-76. [ELECTRONIC]
• Timothy Clark, “Thinking Like a Mountain?” in Literature and the Environment, 77-86. [ELECTRONIC]