Alessa Johns

Dreadful Visitations

Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 153mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780415921763
• ISBN-10: 0415921767
• Artikelnr.: 22207150

Autorenporträt

Alessa Johns is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She has published articles on eighteenth-century British literature including the works of Mary Astell, Sarah Fielding, Sarah Scott, Mary Hamilton and Daniel Defoe.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I European Responses to Catastrophe
Chapter 1 Confrontations with the Plague in Eighteenth-Century France, Daniel Gordon
Chapter 2 Defoe and Disasters, G. A. Starr
Chapter 3 ::, Stephen Tobriner
Part II Colonial Perspectives and New World Calamities
Chapter 4 Hunger in the Garden of Plenty, David Arnold
Chapter 5 Shaking the Unstable Empire, Charles F. Walker
Chapter 6 "The Hungry Year", Alan Taylor