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ENGL 3215 - Wilderness Literature

3 hours
Prerequisites: ENGL 1102  and a grade of “C”or better in ENGL 2110  or ENGL 2120  or ENGL 2210  or ENGL 2220  or ENGL 2310  or ENGL 2320 . Historian William Cronon has written that “the time has come to rethink wilderness,” whihc is what this course aims to do through a critical examinaton of literary texts representing various conceptions of unpopulated, or depopulated, American landscapes. Wilderness as wasteland, wilderness as refuge, wilderness as frontier, wilderness as playground - these are only some of the ways taht wilderness has been represented in the American popular imagination. Our explorations may include such authors as Henry David Thoreau, Jon Muir, Mary Austin, Evelyn White and Edward Abbey.



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