ENGL 317 - Fantasies of Untamed Nature

FDR: HL
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2012

Prerequisite: Three credits in 200-level English. A study of how untamed nature is imagined differently by writers as the landscape changes from the Anglo-Saxon settlement to the 16th century, than again in late-20th-century industrialized Britain. Genres: lyric, folk epic, ballad, romance, animal fable, modern romantic fantasy, postmodern novel and short story. Readings throughout in historical geography, videos on the English landscape at different stages, maps.Craun.