The Environment and Literature of Moral Dilemmas

Preface / By Helen Gavin -- The Environment And The Betrayal Of The Covenant -- Nature And The Biblical Calendar : Festivals And Psalms -- 'promised Lands' And National Poetry -- Sacred Landscapes In Exile -- Kadosh! Kadosh! Kadosh! -- The Bible, Charity And Agricultural Law -- The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn : Loss And Nature -- 'man Is The Tree Of The Field' -- Free Will, Divine Law And Science -- Energy And Its Abuse -- Environmental Disaster In The Bible -- The Apocalyptic Beast Let Loose -- Swords To Ploughshares : The Vision Of Universal Peace -- Humility : God's Reply To Job From The Whirlwind -- Where Were You? -- Industry And The Romantics : Blake, Wordsworth And Goethe -- The Environment And 'condition Of England' Novelists -- Marx : The Industrial Environment As Crime -- Ibsen, Chekhov, And The Moral Environment -- The Rediscovery Of Nature In Mendele, Bialik, And Tchernichowsky -- The Waste Land : Sin And Suffering -- Environmental Abuse In Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath -- Post-1945 Literature : The Quest For A Lost Eden. David Aberbach. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Ipswich, Ma Available Via World Wide Web.