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Saving Grace of America's Green Jeremiad

Saving Grace of America's Green Jeremiad

Gatta, John

Hardcover

Series: Environment and Society

Literary CriticismReligion General Nature Writing

ISBN10: 1793624054
ISBN13: 9781793624055
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Apr 1 2022
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
American nature writing characteristically embodies an appreciative, lyrical evocation of the natural world. But often, too, green-disposed authors have been moved to dramatize diverse, anthropogenic perils to environmental health. John Gatta freshly reveals how this dark yet graced and hopeful strain of environmental literature enlarges upon a jeremiad tradition of prophecy inherited from Puritan New England. Across successive historical periods, such expression has assumed a rich variety of American form--as creative nonfiction, poetry, fiction, or film documentary. In the spirit of ancient Hebrew prophecy, jeremiads--unlike diatribes--reach beyond effusions of doom and gloom toward the prospect of change through a conversion of heart. Accordingly, the new climate fiction and much other writing steeped in what Gatta terms this Green Jeremiad tradition not only warn of material threats to life's flourishing, but may also look to stir spiritual understanding and renewal.

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