ETS340 : Reading the English Landscape
Description:
This course assumes that every inch of “England’s green and pleasant land” has been transformed by human activity. Students will analyze representations of non-urban landscapes and states of Nature in verse and prose (as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, and architecture) and learn to “read” English landscapes, including gardens, as cultural products and sites of social conflict. Literary readings may include works by Jonson, Blake, the Wordsworths, Clare, Potter, Forster, Walcott, Heaney, Jarman, and Atwood. The critical investigation of frames—visible and invisible—organizes this course, as does the direct experience of the English countryside.
N.B. Students have priority booking on a number of all-school field trips. May include an optional weekend study visit to the Lake District with the fee announced in London and payable with a credit card; bring a waterproof coat and light hiking boots.
Fulfills the pre-1900 requirement for SU/ETS majors. (Theorizing Forms and Genres)
Available Locations:
England
Semester(s) Offered:
Offered: Spring, Fall
Credits:
3
Department:
English and Textual Studies
