Writing of Natural Disaster in Europe, 1500–1826

Events in Excess

AvSandhya Patel,Sophie Chiari

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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This book explores reactions to and representations of natural disasters in early modern Europe. The contributors illustrate how the cultural production of the period - in manuals, treatises, sermons, travelogues and fiction - grappled with environmental catastrophe. Crucially, they interrogate how people in the early modern era rationalized and mediated the threat of events like plagues, great frosts, storms, floods and earthquakes. A vital contribution to environmental history, this book highlights the parallels between early modern responses to natural disaster and climate anxiety in our own era.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-12-13
Mått:148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt:354 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:182
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031121197

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Sandhya Patel is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies at Université Clermont Auvergne, France. Sophie Chiari-Lasserre is Professor of Early Modern English Literature at Université Clermont Auvergne, France.

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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Elucidating Events in Excess in Early Modern Manuals, Pamphlets and Pastorals.- Chapter 2: Prognosticating Tempests in The Arte of Navigation by Richard Eden.- Chapter 3: Tending One’s Own Garden: Husbandry, Weather Lore and Prognostication in Early Modern England.- Chapter 4: Pests, Plagues and Pastoral Husbandry: Representing Ovine Disease in Early Modern England.- Part II: Directed Discussions of Disaster.- Chapter 5: Acqua Alta, Silting, and Plague: Representing Venetian Resilience from an Early Modern British Perspective.- Chapter 6: The Advent of Natural Disaster. The Earthquake in the Philosophical Transactions (1664/5-1700).- Chapter 7: ‘Improving this terrible Visitation’: The Three Thomases and the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake.- Part III: Poetics of Disaster.- Chapter 8: The Illusive Elements in Purcell and Dryden’s King Arthur.- Chapter 9: Mary Shelley, Natural Disasters and ‘Catastrophes’.- Chapter 10: Comparative Collapsology: From Shakespeare to George R. R. Martin.

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