Alessa Johns

Dreadful Visitations (eBook, PDF)

Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Throughout history, varying responses to catastrophe have revealed much about a society's cultural and philosophical character. In Dreadful Visitations , leading scholars of different disciplines examine eighteenth-century responses to natural disaster, showing how human agency played an active role in the creation of destructive circumstances, and how these disasters helped to establish national and moral identities in the Age of Reason. Contributors: David Arnold, Daniel Gordon, Carla Hesse, George Starr, Alan Taylor, Steven Tobriner and Charles Walker.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136683893
• Artikelnr.: 40172382

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