Shannon Gayk, Apocalyptic Ecologies: From Creation to Doom in Middle English Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024, 293 pp.
2 Pages
Open Access
Journal:
Mediaevistik
Volume 37
Issue 1
Publication Year 2024
pp. 147 - 148
Summary
The coming of Doomsday would make anyone pause, let alone ecologists. They (unlike scientists and technologists) think that the world is getting worse. Their pessimism has its uses for reading medieval texts on things that go wrong and are beyond our control.
Details
- Pages
- 2
- DOI
- 10.3726/med.2024.01.24
- Publication date
- 2025 (November)
- Keywords
- shannon gayk apocalyptic ecologies from creation doom middle english literature chicago university press
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