Re: evolution and nature writing

[Brad Monsma <brad.monsma@csuci.edu>]

Muir's essay "A Windstorm in the Forest" seems clearly influenced by the
idea of natural selection though he doesn't use such terminology.

Brad Monsma
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On 9/3/08 9:10 AM, "Thomas P Lynch" <tlynch2@unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi all,
> I've just been assigned to teach a class next spring on Darwin and American
> nature writing.  Next year there's a big Darwin hoopla scheduled here, run
> mostly by the biology dept., but we in English are doing our part.  The
> idea is to read American nature writers who deal with or who have been
> obviously influenced by Darwin and evolutionary theory.  Some present
> suspects I have in mind would be Loren Eiseley, David Quammen (who's coming
> to campus), E. O. Wilson, maybe Ursula Goodenough.  But I'm looking for
> some  other suggestions from this list's vast storehouse of knowledge.
> Maybe some poets?  Maybe a novel?
> 
> Thanks, Tom
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