A course that tracks Irish literary engagement with forms of environmental knowledge, beginning with contemporary fictions of climate crisis and tracking back to the beginnings of the Anthropocene in the eighteenth century. Authors to be studied include Mike McCormack, Paula Meehan, Sinad Morrisey, JM Synge, Jane Barlow, James Clarence Mangan, Lady Morgan and Maria Edgeworth; topics to include scale, periodisation, hunger, food security, energy and interdisciplinarity. The course will also explore the literary inscription of specific Irish environments including coast, shore, bog and mountain.
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