Writers since Meriwether Lewis have tried to know the great diversity of American landscape through acts of language. In this course we'll ask how poems, essays, and fiction depict American encounters with nature: As the unknown other to be conquered? As access to a spiritual dimension? As a site of contested claims for use and power? How have these many meanings we've assigned our landscapes shifted in the face of environmental degradation? Our readings, discussion, and writing will focus on how the American psyche has been influenced by both a fear of, and a love of, what is "wild."
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