The Writing of Natural Disaster in Europe, 1500–1826
Events in Excess
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Product details:
- Edition number 1st ed. 2023
- Publisher Springer International Publishing
- Date of Publication 13 December 2023
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9783031121227
- Binding Paperback
- See also 9783031121197
- No. of pages182 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Weight 262 g
- Language English
- Illustrations IX, 182 p. 1 illus. Illustrations, black & white 520
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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.
Table of Contents:
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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