The culture of disaster
By: Marie-Helene Huet
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780226358215
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: World politics; Disasters; Disasters in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acts of God, deeds of men; title: Enlightenment and the plague; title: The silence of Lisbon (1755); title: The reign of cholera (1832); title: Political disasters, time in ruins; title: Losing Rome (Rousseau); title: Nightwatch: terror and time; title: The politics of mortality; title: Tall ships and falling stars; title: The face of chaos (Medusa); title: The sphinx of the ice fields; title: The culture of disaster; title: Now playing everywhere.