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Loving God's Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature by Jeffrey Bilbro (review)

Loving God's Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature by Jeffrey... far from being frivolous make-believe, imagination is intensely practical. What we become conscious of, how we see it, and what we believe it means—and everything we leave out—are keys to navigating the world, whether to manage forests for Teddy Roosevelt’s Forest Service, to understand ecological connections as conservation biologists, or to survive in a harsh new place while seeking Christian salvation. (7) Purdy’s interests—the “styles of environmental imagination” (26) that have transformed American landscapes and the laws that have codified them—differ from Gordon’s, but both authors share an attention to the ideological persuasions that have dominion in their respective countries. Unsustainable Oil deserves to be read alongside other excoriations of Alberta’s great speculative game, such as Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent (2008) by Canadian journalist Andrew Nikiforuk, and studies in the emergent field of petrocriticism, such as Stephanie LeMenager’s Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century (2014). Oil, with its climatic consequences, is a defining environmental concern of our age: it has found an impassioned critic in Jon Gordon. Nicholas Bradley University of Victoria Jeffrey Bilbro, Loving God’s Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Western American Literature The Western Literature Association

Loving God's Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature by Jeffrey Bilbro (review)

Western American Literature , Volume 52 (2) – Aug 16, 2017

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Abstract

far from being frivolous make-believe, imagination is intensely practical. What we become conscious of, how we see it, and what we believe it means—and everything we leave out—are keys to navigating the world, whether to manage forests for Teddy Roosevelt’s Forest Service, to understand ecological connections as conservation biologists, or to survive in a harsh new place while seeking Christian salvation. (7) Purdy’s interests—the “styles of environmental imagination” (26) that have transformed American landscapes and the laws that have codified them—differ from Gordon’s, but both authors share an attention to the ideological persuasions that have dominion in their respective countries. Unsustainable Oil deserves to be read alongside other excoriations of Alberta’s great speculative game, such as Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent (2008) by Canadian journalist Andrew Nikiforuk, and studies in the emergent field of petrocriticism, such as Stephanie LeMenager’s Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century (2014). Oil, with its climatic consequences, is a defining environmental concern of our age: it has found an impassioned critic in Jon Gordon. Nicholas Bradley University of Victoria Jeffrey Bilbro, Loving God’s Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama

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Published: Aug 16, 2017

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