The culture of disaster /
Huet, Marie Hélène.
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231- 256) and index.
Acts of God, deeds of men -- Enlightenment and the plague -- The silence of Lisbon (1755) -- The reign of cholera (1832) -- Political disasters, time in ruins -- Losing Rome (Rousseau) -- Nightwatch: terror and time -- The politics of mortality -- Tall ships and falling stars -- The face of chaos (Medusa) -- The sphinx of the ice fields -- The culture of disaster -- Now playing everywhere.
Disasters.
World politics.
Disasters in literature.