Dreadful Visitations : Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment

Johns, Alessa

Routledge（1999/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 226 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780415921756
• DDC分類 303.48509033

基本説明

Offers a rare historical perspective on the cultural impact of disasters, examining 18c responses to the natural catastrophes that challenged the period's claim to reason and mastery of the environment.

Full Description

Throughout history, varying responses to catastrophe have revealed much about a society's cultural and philosophical character. In Dreadful Visitations , leading scholars of different disciplines examine eighteenth-century responses to natural disaster, showing how human agency played an active role in the creation of destructive circumstances, and how these disasters helped to establish national and moral identities in the Age of Reason. Contributors: David Arnold, Daniel Gordon, Carla Hesse, George Starr, Alan Taylor, Steven Tobriner and Charles Walker.

Contents

Part I European Responses to Catastrophe; Chapter 1 Confrontations with the Plague in Eighteenth-Century France, Daniel Gordon; Chapter 2 Defoe and Disasters, G. A. Starr; Chapter 3 ::, Stephen Tobriner; Part II Colonial Perspectives and New World Calamities; Chapter 4 Hunger in the Garden of Plenty, David Arnold; Chapter 5 Shaking the Unstable Empire, Charles F. Walker; Chapter 6 "The Hungry Year", Alan Taylor;