Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment

Alessa Johns (ed)

ISBN 10: 0415921767 / ISBN 13: 9780415921763

Verlag: Routledge, 1999

Very good condition despite light pencil marking. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1157932

Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Alessa Johns is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She has published articles on eighteenth-century British literature including the works of Mary Astell, Sarah Fielding, Sarah Scott, Mary Hamilton and Daniel Defoe.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural ...
Verlag: Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Very good