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Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities /
"This groundbreaking new volume unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. In eleven chapters that engage a variety of eighteenth-century texts, contributors explore timely themes and topics such as climate...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lewisburg, Pennsylvania :
Bucknell University Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : eighteenth century + environmental humanities / Jeremy Chow
- Toward a genealogy of geoengineering : Erasmus Darwin and the Little Ice Age / Elliot Patsoura
- Storm apostrophe / Annette Hulbert
- "When stormy winds happen" : divine providence, climate change discourse, and the cause of weather disasters / Adam W. Sweeting
- Phillis Wheatley Peters's Niobean soundscapes / Shelby Johnson
- Syphilis and natural history : the ethical limits of human mastery / Mariah Crilley
- Shore/lines : drawing environmental change on eighteenth-century Prince Edward Island / Claire Campbell
- Of water, wind, and storms : the elemental regimes of the Buccaneer journal / Jason Payton
- "Supporting sinking nations" : John Dennis's indigenous women and their disasters / Matt Duques
- Imagining decolonial futures in William Gilbert's The hurricane / Ami Yoon
- Slavery and plantation stewardship : the eighteenth-century Caribbean Georgics of James Grainger and Philip Freneau / Christopher Allan Black
- John Thelwell and L.M. Montgomery write the green city / Kate Scarth.