The Theatres of Eighteenth-Century Weather: Spectacle and Climatological Reckoning in English Drama
Author:   Denys Van Renen
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   2024 ed.
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9783031712425


Pages:   163
Publication Date:   11 November 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Denys Van Renen
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2024 ed.
ISBN:  

9783031712425


ISBN 10:   3031712420
Pages:   163
Publication Date:   11 November 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Chapter 1 - “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 2 - “Storming at Heav’n and Thee!”: Ecological Wastelands in Addison’s Cato.- Chapter 3 - “I’ll have none of these airs”: The West Indies and British Inertia in Mary Pix and John Gay.- Chapter 4 - “Art against art”: Sentimentality, Mid-Century Drama, and the North American Crises”.- Chapter 5 - “A Winter Drama”: Decolonizing South America and Environmental Restoration in Sheridan’s Pizzaro.

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Denys Van Renen is Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, USA, and the 2023-2024 Distinguished Professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy. His previous three books include The Other Exchange, Nature and the New Science, and Environmental Justice and the Scottish Picaresque. Van Renen has also co-edited a collection, Beyond 1776: Globalizing the Cultures of the American Revolution.

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