The Saving Grace of America's Green Jeremiad

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<p><span>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</span><span>perils</span><span> 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, jeremiadsunlike 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 lifes flourishing, but may also look to stir spiritual understanding and renewal.</span></p><p></p>

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<p><span>John Gatta</span><span> is professor english emeritus at the University of Connecticut and at the University of the South, Sewanee.</span></p>

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