Theatres of Eighteenth-Century Weather

Theatres of Eighteenth-Century Weather

Spectacle and Climatological Reckoning in English Drama

Van Renen, Denys

Springer International Publishing AG

11/2024

163

Dura

9783031712425

15 a 20 dias

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Chapter 1 - Introduction.- Chapter 2 - "The Rareness of the Figures": Air and Accessibility in Aphra Behn's Emperor of the Moon and Elkanah Settle's The World in the Moon.- Chapter 3 - "Storming at Heav'n and Thee!": Ecological Wastelands in Addison's Cato.- Chapter 4 - "I'll have none of these airs": The West Indies and British Inertia in Mary Pix and John Gay.- Chapter 5 - "Art against art": Sentimentality, Mid-Century Drama, and the North American Crises".- Chapter 6 - "A Winter Drama": Decolonizing South America and Environmental Restoration in Sheridan's Pizzaro.- Chapter 7 - Epilogue : "'Lucretius Englisht': Nahum Tate's Ecophobic Adaptation of Shakespeare's Coriolanus.
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Literature and the Environment;Eighteenth-Century Drama;Weather;Climate;Ecocriticism;Aphra Behn;John Gay;Joseph Addison;Richard Brinsley Sheridan