The Theatres of Eighteenth-Century Weather Spectacle and Climatological Reckoning in English Drama /

Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur:	Van Renen, Denys (Auteur)
Coauteur:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Samenvatting:	IX, 163 p. text
Taal:	Engels
Gepubliceerd in:	Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Editie:	1st ed. 2024.
Onderwerpen:	Theater > History. Literature, Modern > 18th century. Drama. Ecocriticism. Theatre History. Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Online toegang:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71243-2
Formaat:	Elektronisch Boek

Inhoudsopgave:

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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