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

ISBN-13: 9780813949741 / Angielski

Katherine Cox

Opis

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, this book argues that an ecologically inflected moral system assumed that humanity bore responsibility for climate corruption and volatility.