La représentation des catastrophes naturelles dans la littérature anglaise des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
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Le programme « La représentation des catastrophes naturelles dans la littérature anglaise des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles » est un projet I-Site porté par l’Institut d’histoire des représentations et des idées dans les modernités, UMR 5317). Ce projet est consacré aux représentations des catastrophes naturelles — et, en particulier, des éléments déchaînés et des événements climatiques extrêmes (inondations, tempêtes, gel/froid extrême, sécheresse etc.) — au théâtre, mais aussi, plus largement, dans le cadre de la littérature des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Ce carnet accompagne ce projet et les différents événements scientifiques liés à celui-ci.
Angus Vine (University of Stirling) [télécharger la proposition] In 1622 Sir Francis Bacon brought out his first dedicated collection of natural history, the Historia naturalis et experimentalis ad condendam philosophiam, one of four works that he published in that most fruitful of years. Issued by...
Sophie Lemercier-Goddard (IHRIM, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon) [télécharger la proposition] Though anecdotal, one of the most vivid and tangible signs of the Little Ice Age which affected Europe between the 14th century and the middle of the 19th century is the frozen Thames, which became a rec...
Anne-Valérie Dulac (Sorbonne Université) . [télécharger la proposition] . Nicholas Hilliard’s Arte of Limning warns limners against the deleterious effect of “some ayers, especially […] the sulfirous ayre of seacole and the guilding of Gowldsmithes” on pigments. Besides showing Hilliard’s chemical u...
Écrire la catastrophe. L’Angleterre à l’épreuve des éléments (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles). Sous la direction de Sophie Chiari Parution le 14 novembre 2019 aux Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal [cliquez ici] De par sa situation insulaire, l’Angleterre n’a cessé de s’approprier les récits des catastrophes...
Vincent Martins (Université Clermont Auvergne) [télécharger la proposition] William Shakespeare’s King Lear and George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire are both built around a natural disaster imbued with multiple layers of meaning. The motto “winter is coming” in the fantasy saga l...
Sandhya Patel (Université Clermont Auvergne) [télécharger la proposition] This study (work in progress) seeks to trace the emergence of the multifarious concept of natural disaster in the burgeoning published science of the second half of the seventeenth century, particularly in the Royal Society's...
Anne Geoffroy (Université Versailles Saint Quentin) [télécharger la proposition] Following the latest catastrophic acqua alta in November 2019 and the current Covid-19 pandemic, Venice effectively provides a mirror to the world when it comes to natural disasters. Coping with natural calamities is a...
Julie Van Parys-Rotondi (Université Clermont Auvergne) [télécharger la proposition] In his Essays, Civil and Moral, Francis Bacon (1561–1626) offers the following insight into gardening: “GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures[1]”. Both a pleasure and, wh...
Jonathan Pollock (Université de Perpignan Via Domitia) [télécharger la proposition] This paper will attempt to reconsider the topos of the tempest as portrayed in the writings of the 16th and early 17th centuries as an archetypal figure of the unexpected event which befalls mere mortals and about wh...
Laurence Gouriévidis (Université Clermont Auvergne) [télécharger la proposition] In the middle of the 19thC, a fungal pathogen, phytophthora Infestans, commonly known as potato blight, wreaked havoc in Europe, recurrently decimating potato crops between 1845 and 1850. It caused untold misery on thos...
Katie Halsey, University of Stirling [télécharger la proposition] In the late spring and early summer of 1816, Jane Austen was at work revising the manuscript of ‘Susan’ (which would become Northanger Abbey). She was also writing her final completed novel Persuasion, completed on 6 August of that ye...
Anne Rouhette (Université Clermont Auvergne) [télécharger la proposition] Mary Shelley’s Victor Frankenstein refers to the long-awaited awakening of his creature as a ‘catastrophe[1]’, a term which echoes his famous description of an oak tree completely destroyed by lighting only a few pages before...
Mickaël Popelard (Université de Caen Normandie) As a fellow of the Royal Society and the author of several botanical treatises, including the Methodus plantarum nova (1682) and the three volumes of the Historia generalis plantarum (1686, 1688, 1704), John Ray (1627-1705) is sometimes presented as "t...
Chantal Schütz (École Polytechnique) Climate-based metaphors are far from being unusual in Renaissance love poetry and lyrics, but just like the Petrarchan similes that took Europe by storm, they soon became relatively stale and lost their unexpectedness: the flames of love and volcanic passions, th...
John Gillies (University of Essex) [télécharger la proposition] As the climate-change clock ticks down one asks: why are we so blasé? Why are we not galvanised in the way of societies in wartime? How have we come to normalise the apocalypse? I approach this question via a genealogy that takes modern...
David M. Bergeron (University of Kansas) In the opening landscape of Ben Jonson’s first Jacobean entertainment, Masque of Blackness (1605), the playwright, with the assistance of Inigo Jones, presented an artificial sea with waves that seemed to move, billow, and break, “imitating,” Jonson writes,...
Pierre Lurbe (Faculté des Lettres, Sorbonne Université) The Lisbon earthquake of November 1st, 1755 was by far the most significant natural disaster of the entire 18th century. On that fateful day, an earthquake, followed by a tsunami, razed the Portuguese capital almost entirely to the ground, caus...
Sophie Chiari (Université Clermont Auvergne) As early as 1546, the Italian physician Fracastoro put forward the contagion theory and, in 1578, he was followed by Massari who similarly questioned the traditional aetiology of miasma. Yet, this medical breakthrough was by no means unanimously accepted...
Todd Andrew Borlik, University of Huddersfield The late works of Michael Drayton revel in apocalyptic calamity. Irked that the public had turned a deaf ear to the warnings sounded in his Poly-Olbion, Drayton became convinced England was over-depleting its natural resources, and destined to suffer a...
Geraldo U. de Sousa (The University of Kansas, USA) The word “disaster,” borrowed from the French, implies “an event or occurrence of a ruinous or very distressing nature,” a calamity, “a sudden accident or natural catastrophe that causes great damage and loss of life” (OED). From an early modern p...
Anna Demoux (Université Clermont Auvergne) In 1558, Steven Borough visited the navigational school in Seville and brought back to England a copy of Martín Cortés de Albacar’s Arte de Navegar (1551). The English navigator had his copy translated by Richard Eden and published by Richard Jugge as the A...
Isabelle Fernandes (Université Clermont Auvergne) ‘On Wednesdaye in the Easter weeke, being the sixt day of April. 1580. Between the houres of five and sixe in the evening, hapned generally through all the City of London, & the Suburbes of the same (as it were in a moment and upon the sodaine’ a won...
Caroline Bertonèche (Université Grenoble Alpes) In her essay on catastrophe dated 2011, Annie Le Brun rethinks poetry in terms of what she calls a « vital tension » – a concept which, according to Le Brun, is tied to the questions of temporality and meaning, itself at the heart of any (sane) reader’...
Danièle Berton-Charrière (Université Clermont Auvergne) The opening dialogue between Damville and Borachio in Cyril Tourneur’s Atheist’s Tragedy renders men’s antithetic philosophical and ethical creeds and attitudes when confronted to hostile natural phenomena and catastrophes. Damville’s pseudo sc...
Meriel Cordier (Université Clermont Auvergne) Although early modern sheep were vital to the development of British commerce, they seem to have left almost no impression on the English cultural landscape. Sheep rearing provided humans with crucial commodities (meat, milk, manure, and most importantly...