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

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

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Availability:In StockContributor:Denys Van RenenPublish date:2024-11-11Pages:163
Language:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9783031712425ISBN-10:3031712420UPC:9783031712425Book Category:Performing Arts, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Theater, Modern, DramaBook Topic:History & Criticism, 18th CenturySize:8.27 x 5.83 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCRCRTG057

While British drama of the long eighteenth century remains largely unexamined as registering ecological fears, its visual spectacle and settings allow the audience to grasp threats to environments across the globe. In plays from 1682-1799, The Theatres of Eighteenth-Century Weather: Spectacle and Climatological Reckoning in English Drama examines how the "little world" of the theatre enables the British to conceptualize and experience how scientific and technological innovations, industrialization, imperial enterprises, and the increasing scale and reach of the British military affect the climate. In fact, the book attributes the drama of Aphra Behn, Susanna Centlivre, Joseph Addison, Nahum Tate, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and other playwrights as pivotal to maintaining an audience's discernment of climatological processes and variability.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9783031712425ISBN-10:3031712420UPC:9783031712425Book Category:Performing Arts, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Theater, Modern, DramaBook Topic:History & Criticism, 18th CenturySize:8.27 x 5.83 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCRCRTG057

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.


Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

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2024 Edition

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Denys Van Renen

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