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- 题名/责任者:
- The experience of disaster in early modern English literature / edited by Sophie Chiari.
- 出版发行项:
- New York : Routledge, 2022.
- ISBN:
- 9781032225722
- ISBN:
- 9781032225739
- 载体形态项:
- xii, 184 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- 附加个人名称:
- Chiari, Sophie, editor.
- 论题主题:
- Nature in literature.
- 论题主题:
- English literature-Early modern, 1500-1700-History and criticism.
- 中图法分类号:
- I561.064
- 书目附注:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 摘要附注:
- "This collection of essays addresses the concept of 'disaster' through a variety of literary texts dating back to the early modern period. While Shakespeare's age, which was an era of colonization, certainly marked a turning point in men and women's relations with nature, the present times seem to announce the advent of environmental justice in spite of the massive ecological destructions that have contributed to reshape our planet. Between then and now, a whole history of climatic disasters and of their artistic depictions needs to be traced. The literary representations of eco-catastrophes, in particular, have consistently fashioned the English identity and led to the progress of science and the 'advancement of learning'. They have also obliged us to adapt, recycle and innovate. How could the destructive process entailed by ecological disasters be represented on the page and thereby transformed into a creative process encouraging meditation, preservation and resilience in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? To this question, the proposed volume offers nuanced, contextualised and perceptive answers. Divided into three main sections 'Extreme Conditions', 'Tempestuous Skies', and 'Biblical Calamities,' this book addresses the major environmental issues of our time through the prism of early modern culture and literature"--
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