Experience of Disaster in Early Modern English Literature

Name: Experience of Disaster in Early Modern English Literature
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This book addresses the concept of \u2018disaster\u2019 through a variety of literary texts dating back to the early modern period. While Shakespeare\u2019s age, which was an era of colonisation, certainly marked a turning point in men and women\u2019s relations with nature, the present times seem to announce the advent of environmental justice in spite of the massive ecological destructions that have contributed to reshape our planet. Between then and now, a whole history of climatic disasters and of their artistic depictions needs to be traced. The literary representations of eco-catastrophes, in particular, have consistently fashioned the English identity and led to the progress of science and the \u2018advancement of learning\u2019. They have also obliged us to adapt, recycle and innovate. How could the destructive process entailed by ecological disasters be represented on the page and thereby transformed into a creative process encouraging meditation, preservation and resilience.