Literature and Environment:  Contemporary Pastoral

Syllabus

Course Syllabus

Course Resources

Octavia Butler, "Bloodchild" (1984)

"Green Plants as Intelligent Organisms" (Trends in Plant Science, 2005)

Alan Weisman, "A Lingering Scent of Eden," "Unbuilding Our Home, "The City Without Us" (The World Without Us, 2007)

"A Web of Trees and Their 'Hidden' Lives" (National Public Radio, 2016)

Richard Powers, "Nicholas Hoel," "Patricia Westerford" (The Overstory, 2018)

Robert MacFarlane, "The Hiding Place" (Underland, 2019)

Karen Russell, "The Bad Graft," "The Gondoliers" (Orange World, 2019)

Max Porter, "Dead Papa Toothwort" (Lanny, 2019)

Robert MacFarlane, "The Understory" (Underland, 2019)

Nicholson Baker, "Subsoil" (1994)