Katherine Cox

Publications

A book cover depicting a sky filled with birds and angelic figures, text fades from light blue to yellow "Climate Change and Original Sin."

Climate Change and Original Sin: The Moral Ecology of John Milton’s Poetry

Katherine Cox (NEH Fellow, 2018-19)

Focusing on the most recent epoch in which belief in an animate environment still widely prevailed, Climate Change and Original Sin argues that an ecologically inflected moral system assumed that humanity bore responsibility for climate corruption and volatility.