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  1. The experience of disaster in early modern English literature
    Contributor: Chiari, Sophie (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Chiari, Sophie (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003273134; 1003273130; 9781000569919; 1000569918; 9781000569896; 1000569896
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    Series: Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment
    Subjects: Natural disasters in literature; Nature in literature; English literature; Electronic books; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Scope: 1 online resource.
  2. The Experience of Disaster in Early Modern English Literature
    Contributor: Chiari, Sophie (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2022; ©2022
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis Group, Milton

    Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- General Introduction -- I.1 Nature Gone Wild: Disasters or Catastrophes? -- I.2... more

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    Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- General Introduction -- I.1 Nature Gone Wild: Disasters or Catastrophes? -- I.2 Extreme Environmental Conditions -- I.3 Changing Skies -- I.4 The Acts of God -- Notes -- Part I: Extreme Conditions -- Chapter 1: Shakespeare, Natural Disaster and Atmospheric Phenomena -- 1.1 Little Ice Age (c. 1300-1850) -- 1.2 Extreme Weather in A Midsummer Night's Dream -- 1.3 Extreme Weather in The Tempest -- 1.4 Questions of Survival -- 1.5 Conclusion: Unusual Atmospheric Phenomena -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Frozen: English Journeys to the End of the World -- 2.1 Arctic Ice, Home and Away -- 2.2 'Wondrous Strange Snow': A Spectacle of Strangeness 14 -- 2.3 Eco-Catastrophe in the Frozen Zone -- 2.4 Conclusion: A Critical Zone -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Musical Representations of Natural Phenomena in Early Modern English Madrigals -- 3.1 Weelkes's 'Period of Cosmography' -- 3.2 Farnaby's Vulcan and Gibbons's Blazing Star -- 3.3 Wilbyes's 'Hot Climates' -- 3.4 Volcanoes and Masques -- 3.5 Conclusion: Natural Disasters Vs. Harmony and the Joys of Spring -- Notes -- Part II: Tempestuous Skies -- Chapter 4: Man in Stormy Weathers: Tempestuous Skies in the Age of Shakespeare -- 4.1 Lear in the Storm -- 4.2 Shipwrecks in Strong Winds and Choppy Seas -- 4.3 Thunder and Lightning: A Sophistic Atheist's Explanation 9 -- 4.4 Magic Weather-Making: A Political Background? -- 4.5 Conclusion: Changing Perspectives -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The Storms of Othello in 1613 -- 5.1 Source and Performances -- 5.2 Weather in 1613 -- 5.3 Entertainments, Turks and Lepanto -- 5.4 Spanish Armada -- 5.5 Storms in Othello -- 5.6 Conclusion: Eye of the Storm -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Francis Bacon and the Mastery of the Winds.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Chiari, Sophie (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781000569919
    Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment Ser.
    Subjects: Nature in literature; Natural disasters in literature; English literature-Early modern, 1500-1700-History and criticism; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (199 Seiten)
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  3. The experience of disaster in early modern English literature /
    Contributor: Chiari, Sophie, (editor.)
    Published: 2022.; ©2022
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York, NY :

    "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... more

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    "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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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Chiari, Sophie, (editor.)
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003273134; 1003273130; 9781000569919; 1000569918; 9781000569896; 1000569896
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    Series: Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment
    Subjects: Natural disasters in literature.; Nature in literature.; English literature; Catastrophes naturelles dans la littérature.; Nature dans la littérature.; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Ecology.; English literature
    Scope: 1 online resource.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
  4. The experience of disaster in early modern English literature
    Contributor: Chiari, Sophie (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Chiari, Sophie (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003273134; 1003273130; 9781000569919; 1000569918; 9781000569896; 1000569896
    Other identifier:
    Series: Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment
    Subjects: Natural disasters in literature; Nature in literature; English literature; Electronic books; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Scope: 1 online resource.