Notes: Literatures in English II, 1660 1990: Economies, Bodies, and Ecologies How has early nineteenth century Romantic poetry anticipated our present worries about the human body coping with climate change? What does abolitionist writing tell us about the economization of public health? These are some questions we will explore in this intensive survey of the literatures of the British Isles and Empire between Restoration and the end of the Nineteenth Century (1660-1990). We will read the texts in our course by triangulating between three thematic rubrics: economies, bodies, and ecologies. We will analyze, among other things, the connections between resilient bodies and the carbon footprint of empire in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719), the intersection of race and commodity in Olaudah Equiano’s Narrative (1789), imperial understanding of climate and ecology in Felicia Hemans's “The Forest Sanctuary” (1825), and the relationship between gendered economies and the medical sciences in Krupabai Sattianadhan’s Saguna (1887). Assignments will make close use of digital tools, as well as web-based archives, to study closely the entanglements of economies, bodies, and ecologies in the literature of the British Isles and Empire.