The writing of natural disaster in Europe, 1500-1826 : events in excess /: events in excess. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sandhya Patel, Sophie Chiari.
• Editors: Patel, Sandhya; Chiari, Sophie
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 820.936; European literature -- History and criticism; Natural disasters in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031121203
• Related ISBNs: 9783031121197
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