RT Article
T1 Ecotheological Relationships in Elizabeth Barrett’s “A Drama of Exile”
JF Christianity & literature
VO 69
IS 3
SP 418
OP 438
A1 Dieleman, Karen
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1738956210
AB Elizabeth Barrett’s 1844 lyric-drama “A Drama of Exile”—typically interpreted as a poem about Adam and Eve in their first condition after the Fall—is more broadly a poem about the parallel movement of all members of creation from innocence to lament to aggression to grace. In the poem, Barrett examines four possible paradigms for the postlapsarian relationship among members of creation: the human dominion model, advocated by Adam; the human subjection model, advocated by Eve; the Earth dominion model, advocated by Earth spirits; and the model of mutual blessing, advocated by Christ. Though it remains problematic in some of its assertions, this last model aligns with a Christology that holds that the natural world deserves justice and participates with humanity in cosmological hope and renewal.
K1 Elizabeth Barrett
K1 Christology
K1 “A Drama of Exile”
K1 Creation
K1 Ecotheology
K1 Nature
DO 10.1353/chy.2020.0041