مقابله با بلایا از دوران مدرن اولیه تا دوران مدرن: واکنش‌های فرهنگی به فاجعه‌ها (مطالعات بلایا)

Disasters are as much cultural as natural phenomena. For centuries, news about catastrophic events has been disseminated through media such as chronicles, pamphlets, newspapers, poems, drawings, and prints. Nowadays, we are overwhelmed with news about the cataclysmic effects of recent forest fires, floods, and storms. Due to the ongoing climate crisis, extreme weather events will likely have ever greater impacts on our lives. This volume addresses cultural representations of catastrophes such as floods, epidemics, and earthquakes over the centuries. In the past as now, artists and authors try to make sense of disasters, grasp their impact, and communicate moral, religious, or political messages. These creations reflect and shape how people learn and think about disasters that occur nearby or far away, both in time and space. The parallels between past and present underline how this book contributes to modern debates about cultural and creative strategies in response to disasters. Table of Contents List of Illustrations Plate signed Graafland (probably Rob Graafland), The Storm of August 1925 Introduction: Cultural Responses to Catastrophes from Early Modern to Modern Times Part 1: Disaster and Emotions 1. Temporality, Emotion, and Gender in Leonardo da Vinci’s Conceptualisation of Natural Violence 2. Early Modern Community Formation Across Northern Europe 3. Landscape as Wounded Body 4. Suffering Compatriots 5. Cultural Resilience during Nineteenth-Century Cholera Outbreaks in the Netherlands Part 2: Disaster and Blame 6. Dealing in Disasters 7. The Ten Plagues of the New World 8. ‘Hungry Balliz Wants Weel Fillin’ 9. Rinderpest in Dutch Regional Fiction Part 3: Disaster and Time 10. Coping with Epidemics in Early Modern Chronicles, The Low Countries, 1500–1850 11. Coverage in Dutch Newspapers of Earthquakes in Italy and Beyond before Lisbon 1755 12. The Development of Disaster Prints and Publications in Japan, 1663–1923 13. Breaking the Cycles of Catastrophe 14. Disaster Memory and ‘Banished Memory’ About the Author