Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment by Johns, Alessa

Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415921763)

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Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment by Johns, Alessa

Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment

$57.99
Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment by Johns, Alessa

Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment

$57.99
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Alessa Johns
ISBN-10: 0415921767
ISBN-13: 9780415921763
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/21/1999
Pages: 198
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.05h x 6.04w x 0.64d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2000 pg. 58
By Alessa Johns
By Alessa Johns
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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.

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