03623nam a22004815i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001600153072001500169072001600184072002300200072001500223072001500238100007900253245015200332250001800484264007900502300003300581336002600614337002600640338003600666347002400702505073900726520128801465650002202753650003802775650001102813650001802824650002102842650003502863650001102898650001802909710003402927773002602961776003602987776003603023776003603059856004603095978-3-031-71243-2DE-He21320251030113307.0cr nn 008mamaa241111s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830317124327 a10.1007/978-3-031-71243-22doi 4aPN2100-2193 7aAN2bicssc 7aHBT2bicssc 7aPER0110202bisacsh 7aATD2thema 7aATY2thema1 aVan Renen, Denys.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut14aThe Theatres of Eighteenth-Century Weatherh[electronic resource] :bSpectacle and Climatological Reckoning in English Drama /cby Denys Van Renen.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aIX, 163 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aChapter 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.  a 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. 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. 0aTheaterxHistory. 0aLiterature, Modernx18th century. 0aDrama. 0aEcocriticism.14aTheatre History.24aEighteenth-Century Literature.24aDrama.24aEcocriticism.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303171242508iPrinted edition:z978303171244908iPrinted edition:z978303171245640uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71243-2