The writing of natural disaster in Europe, 1500-1826 : events in excess / Sandhya Patel, Sophie Chiari, editors.
Patel, Sandhya, editor.; Chiari, Sophie, editor.
2023
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Title
The writing of natural disaster in Europe, 1500-1826 : events in excess / Sandhya Patel, Sophie Chiari, editors.
ISBN
9783031121203 (electronic bk.)
3031121201 (electronic bk.)
3031121198
9783031121197
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12120-3
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (182 pages)
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10.1007/978-3-031-12120-3 doi
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PN710
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.936
820.936 OCoLC
Summary
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. Sandhya Patel is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies at Universite Clermont Auvergne, France. Sophie Chiari-Lasserre is Professor of Early Modern English Literature at Universite 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 Ones 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 Drydens 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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