Loving God's Wildness - The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Bilbro is an assistant professor of English at Spring Arbor University in Michigan. His articles have been published in Christianity and Literature , Early American Literature, Mississippi Quarterly, and the Southern Literary Journal . Klappentext Analysing writings ranging from the Puritans to the present day! Loving God's Wildness traces the effects of Christian theology on America's ecological imagination. Jeffrey Bilbro demonstrates how the dualistic Christianity that the Puritans brought to America led them to see the land as an empty wilderness that God would turn into a productive source of marketable commodities. Zusammenfassung Analysing writings ranging from the Puritans to the present day, Loving God’s Wildness traces the effects of Christian theology on America’s ecological imagination. Jeffrey Bilbro demonstrates how the dualistic Christianity that the Puritans brought to America led them to see the land as an empty wilderness that God would turn into a productive source of marketable commodities.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Bilbro
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2015
• EAN: 9780817318574
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1857-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies