Saving Grace of America''s Green Jeremiad

Informationen zum Autor John Gatta is Professor of English and Dean of the College at Sewanee: The University of the South. His publications include Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present ( 2004), together with other books and numerous articles. Klappentext This book freshly explores the ways in which green versions of an ancient, darkly admonishing yet graced tradition of Jeremiad prophecy have figured throughout various historical periods and genres of American writing, all the way to the climate fiction of our own day. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1. Ancient Jeremiah's New World Progeny Chapter 2. Toward the Jeremiad Bloom of Silent Spring Chapter 3. From the Blustery Dawn of Earth Day to Earth First! Chapter 4 Prophesying the End of Nature Chapter 5. Saving Truths of the New "CliFi" Jeremiad Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: John Gatta, Gatta John
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781793624055
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-405-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Environment and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Climate Change, NATURE / Essays, Nature Writing, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, RELIGION / Theology, natural history, Theology, Nature & the natural world: general interest, Ecocriticism, Literature: history & criticism, environmental disaster, ecotheology