Week Six (Feb 21) - Landscapes, 'Nature', and 'The Country'

Painting by Bob 'Afro' Ross
Readings for today
For further reading and research:
  • Wolfgang Schivelbusch, "Railroad Space and Railroad Time," in The Railway Journey: The Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space (University of California Press, 1987).
  • David Nye, "Technology, Nature, and American Origin Stories," Environmental History, Vol. 8, Issue 1.
  • William Rollins, "Reflections on the Spare Tire: SUVs and Postmodern Environmental Consciousness," Environmental History, Vol. 11, No. 4 (2006).
  • William Beinart and Katie McKeown, "Wildlife Media and Representations of Africa, 1950s to the 1970s," Environmental History, Vol. 14, No. 3 (2009).
  • Christy Rodgers, "Bugs as Cultural Icons," LiP Magazine, No. 7, pp. 16-21.
  • Finis Dunaway, "Seeing Global Warming: Contemporary Art and the Fate of the Planet," Environmental History, Vol. 14, No. 1 (2009).
  • Mark Stoll, "Milton in Yosemite: Paradise Lost and the National Parks Idea," Environmental History, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2008).
  • Joan M. Schwartz, "Photographic Reflections: Nature, Landscape, and the Environment," Environmental History, Vol. 12, No. 4 (2007).
  • Katherine Ledford, "'Singularly Place in Scenes So Cultivated': The Frontier, the Myth of Westward Progress, and a Backwoods in the Mountain South," ATQ: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, Vol. 18, No. 3 (2004), pp. 205-222.