Climate Change and Original Sin: The Moral Ecology of John Milton's Poetry

by Katherine Cox

Book Overview

Prior to the Enlightenment era, how was the human-climate relationship conceived? Focusing on the most recent epoch in which belief in an animate environment still widely prevailed, Climate Change and Original Sin argues that an ecologically inflected moral system assumed humanity's responsibility for climate corruption and volatility.

The environmental problem initiated by original sin is not only that humans alienated themselves from nature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813949742
• ISBN13: 9780813949741
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"