Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment - Couverture rigide

Johns, Alessa

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415921759 ISBN 13 : 9780415921756

Editeur : Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415921759
• ISBN 13: 9780415921756
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 226
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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