The Writing of Natural Disaster in Europe, 1500–1826
Events in Excess
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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.
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.
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.
Explores representations of natural disaster in early modern Europe Highlights the early modern use of cultural production to rationalize environmental catastrophe Gathers examples and case studies from across Europe
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Sandhya Patel
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