Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-162) and index
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1 Place defined: the ecological importance of place; 2 Place given: Eve as the garden's spirit of place; 3 Place lost: Eve's Fall as an uprooting; 4 Place regained: Sabrina puts down roots; 5 The New Testament's call to place: Paul's and Luther's deconstructions; 6 Rejecting the placeless ancient doctrines: confusing Paradise Regained; 7 The Old Testament's call to place: Job's wisdom in Milton's poetry; 8 The influence of time on place: forbidding unripe fruit
Ken Hiltner engages with literary, theoretical, and historic approaches to explore the ideological underpinnings of our current environmental crisis. Focusing on Milton's rejection of dualistic theology, metaphysical philosophy, and early-modern subjectivism, Hiltner argues that Milton anticipates certain essential modern ecological arguments
Milton and ecology
Published:
2003
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Ken Hiltner engages with literary, theoretical, and historic approaches to explore the ideological underpinnings of our current environmental crisis. Focusing on Milton's rejection of dualistic theology, metaphysical philosophy, and early-modern...
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Ken Hiltner engages with literary, theoretical, and historic approaches to explore the ideological underpinnings of our current environmental crisis. Focusing on Milton's rejection of dualistic theology, metaphysical philosophy, and early-modern subjectivism, Hiltner argues that Milton anticipates certain essential modern ecological arguments
Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-162) and index. - Description based on print version record
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1 Place defined: the ecological importance of place; 2 Place given: Eve as the garden's spirit of place; 3 Place lost: Eve's Fall as an uprooting; 4 Place regained: Sabrina puts down roots; 5 The New Testament's call to place: Paul's and Luther's deconstructions; 6 Rejecting the placeless ancient doctrines: confusing Paradise Regained; 7 The Old Testament's call to place: Job's wisdom in Milton's poetry; 8 The influence of time on place: forbidding unripe fruit.
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [u.a.]
;
EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA
Ken Hiltner engages with literary, theoretical, and historic approaches to explore the ideological underpinnings of our current environmental crisis. Focusing on Milton's rejection of dualistic theology, metaphysical philosophy, and early-modern...
more
Ken Hiltner engages with literary, theoretical, and historic approaches to explore the ideological underpinnings of our current environmental crisis. Focusing on Milton's rejection of dualistic theology, metaphysical philosophy, and early-modern subjectivism, Hiltner argues that Milton anticipates certain essential modern ecological arguments.
