Imaging the Human in the Landscape

proto-ecological values:  interdependence, unanticipated consequences, and the limits of human ambition (Steve Mentz, "Tongues in the Storm," Ecocritical Shakespeare)

ecocriticism deals w/ resource allocation (Joseph Henry Vogel, "Ecocriticism as an Economic School of Thought," OMETECA)

what do you see?



Dove Lake



Thomas Eakins' The Swimming Hole



Mill Creek, just upstream from Dove Lake

Mill Creek
in Philadelphia (once a mill pond, now "Clark Park "Bowl")



Mill Creek, encased beneath West Philly....