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The writing of natural disaster in Europe, 1500-1826 : events in excess / Sandhya Patel, Sophie Chiari, editors.
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Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European literature--History and criticism.
- European literature.
- Natural disasters in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (182 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
- 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 Ones 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 Drydens King Arthur
- Chapter 9: Mary Shelley, Natural Disasters and Catastrophes
- Chapter 10: Comparative Collapsology: From Shakespeare to George R. R. Martin.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Patel, Sandhya The Writing of Natural Disaster in Europe, 1500-1826
- ISBN:
- 9783031121203
- 3031121201
- Publisher Number:
- 99992661311
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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