The Experience of Disaster in Early Modern English Literature
Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 29 January 2024
- ISBN 9781032225739
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages198 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 370 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 Illustrations, black & white; 8 Halftones, black & white 533
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Short description:
This collection of essays addresses the concept of ‘disaster’ through a variety of literary texts dating back to the early modern period.
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This book addresses the concept of ‘disaster’ through a variety of literary texts dating back to the early modern period. While Shakespeare’s age, which was an era of colonisation, certainly marked a turning point in men and women’s relations with nature, the present times seem to announce the advent of environmental justice in spite of the massive ecological destructions that have contributed to reshape our planet. Between then and now, a whole history of climatic disasters and of their artistic depictions needs to be traced. The literary representations of eco-catastrophes, in particular, have consistently fashioned the English identity and led to the progress of science and the ‘advancement of learning’. They have also obliged us to adapt, recycle and innovate. How could the destructive process entailed by ecological disasters be represented on the page and thereby transformed into a creative process encouraging meditation, preservation and resilience in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? To this question, this book offers nuanced, contextualised and perceptive answers. Divided into three main sections ‘Extreme Conditions’, ‘Tempestuous Skies’, and ‘Biblical Calamities,' it deals with the major environmental issues of our time through the prism of early modern culture and literature.
MoreTable of Contents:
General Introduction
Sophie Chiari
PART I. Extreme Conditions
Chapter 1
‘Shakespeare, Natural Disaster, and Atmospheric Phenomena’
Geraldo U. de Sousa
Chapter 2
‘Frozen: English Journeys to the End of the World’
Sophie Lemercier-Goddard
Chapter 3
‘Musical Representations of Natural Phenomena in Early Modern English Madrigals’
Chantal Schütz
PART II. Tempestuous Skies
Chapter 4
‘Man in Stormy Weathers in the Age of Shakespeare’
Danièle Berton-Charrière
Chapter 5
‘The Storms of Othello in 1613’
David M. Bergeron
Chapter 6
‘Francis Bacon and the Mastery of the Winds’
Angus Vine
PART III. Biblical Calamities
Chapter 7
‘The Plague of Gnats in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries’
Sophie Chiari
Chapter 8
‘Michael Drayton and the Invention of the Disaster Epic: Eco-catastrophe in the Late Poems’
Todd A. Borlik
Chapter 9
‘John Ray’s Inquiry into the Future Dissolution of the World in The Miscellaneous Discourses’
Mickaël Popelard
Coda
‘Climate Change and the Postsecular in Paul Schrader’s First Reformed’
John Gillies
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