Nature, Technology, and the Literary Imagination
S07 
Mark Wunderlich
In this course, we will look at the ways in which American writers have shaped our thinking about the environment, sustainability, and rural America. We will also consider the ways in which developments in technology influence not only our physical environment, but the ways in which we think. We will read fiction, essays, longer works of nonfiction, and poems by authors such as Henry David Thoreau, Willa Cather, Rachel Carson, and contemporary writers such as Wendell Berry, Gene Logsdon, Verlyn Klinkenborg, and Michael Pollan. This course may be of particular interest to students of science and those interested in environmental issues.