Romantic Climates
Literature and Science in an Age of Catastrophe
This book seeks to uncover how today's ideas about climate and catastrophe have been formed by the thinking of Romantic poets, novelists and scientists, and how these same ideas might once more be harnessed to assist us in the new climate challenges facing us in the present.The global climate disaster following Mt Tambora's eruption in 1815 - the 'Year without a Summer' - is a starting point from which to reconsider both how the Romantics responded to the changing climates of their day, and to think about how these climatic events shaped the development of Romanticism itself.As the contributions to this volume demonstrate, climate is an inesc…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Murphy, Olivia (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-030-16241-2
- EAN: 9783030162412
- Produktnummer: 31828313
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'254 KB
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2019
- Abbildungen: Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Anne Collett is an Associate Professor in the English Literatures at the University of Wollongong, Australia.Olivia Murphy is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in English at the University of Sydney, Australia.
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