This book freshly explores the ways in which green versions of an ancient, darkly admonishing yet graced tradition of Jeremiad prophecy have figured throughout various historical periods and genres of American writing, all the way to the climate fiction of our own day.

John Gatta is Professor of English and Dean of the College at Sewanee: The University of the South. His publications include Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present ( 2004), together with other books and numerous articles.

Introduction

Chapter 1. Ancient Jeremiah¿s New World Progeny

Chapter 2. Toward the Jeremiad Bloom of Silent Spring

Chapter 3. From the Blustery Dawn of Earth Day to Earth First!

Chapter 4 Prophesying the End of Nature

Chapter 5. Saving Truths of the New ¿CliFi¿ Jeremiad

Conclusion