Committee: Robert Kern (chair), James Wallace , Andrew Bunie
Exam Date: January 24, 2000
Varieties of Nature Writing
- de Crevecoeur, Hector St. John. Letters from an American Farmer (1782)
- Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia. (1787)
- Cooper, James Fenimore. The Pioneers (the massacre of the pigeons) (1823)
- Cooper, Susan Fenimore. Rural Hours (1850)
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Nature" (1836)
- Thoreau, Henry David. "Ktaadn." The Main Woods. (1864)
- --. "Walking." (1851)
- --. Walden. (1854)
- --. A Week on Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
- Burroughs, John. John Burroughs America. (1867-1922)
- Muir, John. The Mountains of California (1894)
- Austin, Mary. The Land of Little Rain (1903)
- Faulkner, William. "The Bear." Go Down Moses.
- Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac. (1949)
- Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring (1962)
- Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire. (1968)
- Momoday, Scott. The Way to Rainy Mountain. (1967)
- Berry, Wendell.
- --. "The Unforseen Wilderness." The Unforeseen Wilderness. (1971).
- --. "The Entrance to the Woods." The Unforeseen Wilderness. (1971).
- --. "A Few Words In Favor of Edward Abbey." What are People For?. (1990)
- --. "Wallace Stegner and the Great Community." What are People For?. (1990)
- Dillard, Annie Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. (1974)
- Silko, Leslie. Ceremony. (1977)
- Erlich, Gretel. The Solace of Open Spaces. (1985)
- Lopez, Barry. "Landscape and Narrative." Crossing Open Ground (1986)
- --. The Rediscovery of North America. (1990)
- Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. (1990)
- Williams, Terry Tempest. Refuge.(1991)
- Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild. (1996)
Critical Texts
- Buell, Lawrence. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. (1995).
- Branch, Michael. "Indexing American Possibilities: The Nature History Writing of Bartram, Wilson, and Audobon." The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. (1996)
- Clarke, Joni Adamson. "Toward an Ecology of Justice: Transformative Ecological Theory and Practice. Reading the Earth: New Directions in the Study of Literature and the Environment. Ed. Michael Branch et al. (1998).
- Cronan, William., ed. Uncommon ground : rethinking the human place in nature (1996).
- Forum on Literatures of the Environment. PMLA. October (1999).
- Gifford, Terry. Pastoral. (1999).
- Killingsworth, M. Jimmie and Jacqueline S.
Palmer. "Ecopolitics and the literature of the borderland: the
frontiers of environmental justice in Latina and Native American
writing." Writing the Environment: Ecocriticism and Literature. Ed. Kerridge, Richard and Neil Sammells (1998). - Lyon, Thomas. This Incomparable Lande: A Book of American Nature Writing (Part I: A History). (1989).
- Marx, Leo. "The Full Thoreau" The New York Review of Books. 46:12 (July 15, 1999): 44-48.
- --. The Machine in the Garden. (1964).
- --. "Pastoralism in America." Ideology and Classic American Literature. Ed. Sacvan Bercovitch and Myra Jehlen. (1986).
- --. "American Institutions and Ecological Ideals." The Pilot and the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Culture in the United States. (1970)
- Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth. (1
- 970).
- Murphy, Patrick. Literature, Nature and Other: Ecofeminist Critiques (esp. "Voicing Another Nature," and Let the Survivors of Contact Speak: In the Canon and the Classroom). (1995).
- --. "Otherness and Inhabitation in Recent Mulitcultural American Literature." Writing the Environment: Ecocriticism and Literature. Kerridge, Richard and Neil Sammells., eds. (1998).
- Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. (1982).
- Norwood, Vera. Made from this Earth: American Women and Nature. (1993).
- --. "Heroines of Nature: Four Women Respond to the American Landscape." The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. Ed. Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm. (1996).
- Scheese, Don. "Pastoralism: Illustration and Definition." Nature Writing: The Pastoral Impulse in America. (1996).
- Turner, Frederick Jackson. "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." (1893)
Videos
- Rachel Carson's Silent spring. 1993
- The West of the imagination 1989