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

    "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

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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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 (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781032225722; 9781032225739
    Series: Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment
    Subjects: Natural disasters in literature; Nature in literature; English literature
    Scope: xii, 184 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

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

    "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

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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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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  3. The experience of disaster in early modern English literature
    Contributor: Chiari, Sophie (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York

    "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

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    10 A 146568
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    Brechtbau-Bibliothek
    NJ 250.215
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    Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    72.2944
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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 (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781032225722; 9781032225739
    Series: Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment
    Subjects: Natural disasters in literature; Nature in literature; English literature
    Scope: xii, 184 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index