{"product_id":"dancing-with-disaster-kate-rigby-9780813936901","title":"Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to the mega-hurricanes of the twenty-first century, revealing the dynamic interaction of diverse human and nonhuman factors in their causation, unfolding, and aftermath. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the link between the ways disasters are framed by the stories told about them and how people tend to respond to them in practice, Rigby also shows how works of narrative fiction invite ethical reflection on human relations with one another, with our often unruly earthly environs, and with other species in the face of eco-catastrophe. In its investigation of an array of authors from the Romantic period to the present--including Heinrich von Kleist, Mary Shelley, Theodor Storm, Colin Thiele, and Alexis Wright-- \u003ci\u003eDancing with Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the importance of the environmental humanities in the development of more creative, compassionate, ecologically oriented, and socially just responses to the perils and possibilities of the Anthropocene.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnder the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kate Rigby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081393690X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813936901\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/06\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2015","brand":"Kate Rigby","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926418030847,"sku":"9780813936901","price":24.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_bda61139-adf1-4953-a1ff-b292e120a4b6.jpg?v=1681082975","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dancing-with-disaster-kate-rigby-9780813936901","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}