This book addresses the concept of ‘disaster’ through a variety of literary texts dating back to the early modern period. While Shakespeare’s age, which w

This collection of essays addresses the concept of 'disaster' through a variety of literary texts dating back to the early modern period. While Shakespeare's ag

The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which has been both precarious and thr

This study considers how a range of prose texts register, and help to shape, the early modern cultural debate between theoretical and experiential forms of know