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
