Thomas Hallock is professor of English at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. He is author of From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749–1826 and coeditor of Travels on the St. Johns River: John and William Bartram; William Bartram, the Search for Nature’s Design: Selected Art, Letters, and Unpublished Writings ; and Early Modern Ecostudies: From the Florentine Codex to Shakespeare.

A Road Course in Early American Literature is a deeply, original, brilliant, entertaining book, brimming with the author’s enthusiasm for his subject—American writing from the conquest of Tenochtitlan to the end of the Civil War—and for what he has learned in decades of teaching." —Christoph Irmscher, author of Max Eastman: A Life and Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science"Thomas Hallock turns a scholarly imagination and unblinking eye on the crossroads of literature and place, traveling and trespassing in order to understand American history and what it wrought in American culture....The upshot of Hallock’s cross-pollinations is this, a hybrid with novel traits, significant vigor, and a powerful heartbeat. I’m very impressed." — Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood"Thomas Hallock’s guide through the white-washed, buried, and forgotten stories of early American literature is a cross between your favorite college English class and your life’s best road trips. Revealing his own trespasses both literal and literary, Hallock leads his readers across the troubled waters of American memory to find shared ground in the transformative power of words. The essays in Road Course are essential journeys for our time." —Cynthia Barnett, author of Mirage, Blue Revolution, and Rain

Thomas Hallock is professor of English at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. He is author of From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749–1826 and coeditor of Travels on the St. Johns River: John and William Bartram; William Bartram, the Search for Nature’s Design: Selected Art, Letters, and Unpublished Writings ; and Early Modern Ecostudies: From the Florentine Codex to Shakespeare.

A Road Course in Early American Literature is a deeply, original, brilliant, entertaining book, brimming with the author’s enthusiasm for his subject—American writing from the conquest of Tenochtitlan to the end of the Civil War—and for what he has learned in decades of teaching." —Christoph Irmscher, author of Max Eastman: A Life and Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science"Thomas Hallock turns a scholarly imagination and unblinking eye on the crossroads of literature and place, traveling and trespassing in order to understand American history and what it wrought in American culture....The upshot of Hallock’s cross-pollinations is this, a hybrid with novel traits, significant vigor, and a powerful heartbeat. I’m very impressed." — Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood"Thomas Hallock’s guide through the white-washed, buried, and forgotten stories of early American literature is a cross between your favorite college English class and your life’s best road trips. Revealing his own trespasses both literal and literary, Hallock leads his readers across the troubled waters of American memory to find shared ground in the transformative power of words. The essays in Road Course are essential journeys for our time." —Cynthia Barnett, author of Mirage, Blue Revolution, and Rain

Thomas Hallock is professor of English at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. He is author of From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749–1826 and coeditor of Travels on the St. Johns River: John and William Bartram; William Bartram, the Search for Nature’s Design: Selected Art, Letters, and Unpublished Writings ; and Early Modern Ecostudies: From the Florentine Codex to Shakespeare.

A Road Course in Early American Literature is a deeply, original, brilliant, entertaining book, brimming with the author’s enthusiasm for his subject—American writing from the conquest of Tenochtitlan to the end of the Civil War—and for what he has learned in decades of teaching." —Christoph Irmscher, author of Max Eastman: A Life and Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science"Thomas Hallock turns a scholarly imagination and unblinking eye on the crossroads of literature and place, traveling and trespassing in order to understand American history and what it wrought in American culture....The upshot of Hallock’s cross-pollinations is this, a hybrid with novel traits, significant vigor, and a powerful heartbeat. I’m very impressed." — Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood"Thomas Hallock’s guide through the white-washed, buried, and forgotten stories of early American literature is a cross between your favorite college English class and your life’s best road trips. Revealing his own trespasses both literal and literary, Hallock leads his readers across the troubled waters of American memory to find shared ground in the transformative power of words. The essays in Road Course are essential journeys for our time." —Cynthia Barnett, author of Mirage, Blue Revolution, and Rain