Dealing with Disasters from Early Modern to Modern Times : Cultural Responses to Catastrophes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asperen, Hanneke van.

Contributor:

Jensen, Lotte.

Series:

Disaster Studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Disaster Studies ; v.1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disasters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The book, edited by Hanneke van Asperen and Lotte Jensen, explores the cultural responses to disasters such as floods, famines, earthquakes, and epidemics from early modern to modern times. It discusses the impact of socioeconomic and political conditions on disaster interpretation, the role of media in disseminating news about catastrophic events, and the cultural repertoires through which disasters have been mediated. The book also addresses the strategies communities have employed to cope with disasters, and how these events have shaped local and national identities. The authors aim to contribute to modern debates about cultural and creative strategies in response to disasters. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Plate signed Graafland (probably Rob Graafland), The Storm of August 1925

Introduction: Cultural Responses to Catastrophes from Early Modern to Modern Times

Part 1: Disaster and Emotions

1. Temporality, Emotion, and Gender in Leonardo da Vinci's Conceptualisation of Natural Violence

2. Early Modern Community Formation Across Northern Europe

3. Landscape as Wounded Body

4. Suffering Compatriots

5. Cultural Resilience during Nineteenth-Century Cholera Outbreaks in the Netherlands

Part 2: Disaster and Blame

6. Dealing in Disasters

7. The Ten Plagues of the New World

8. 'Hungry Balliz Wants Weel Fillin'

9. Rinderpest in Dutch Regional Fiction

Part 3: Disaster and Time

10. Coping with Epidemics in Early Modern Chronicles, The Low Countries, 1500-1850

11. Coverage in Dutch Newspapers of Earthquakes in Italy and Beyond before Lisbon 1755

12. The Development of Disaster Prints and Publications in Japan, 1663-1923

13. Breaking the Cycles of Catastrophe

14. Disaster Memory and 'Banished Memory'

About the Author

Notes:

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ISBN:

9789048557707

9048557704

OCLC:

1371970670