{"product_id":"volcanoes-in-eighteenth-century-europe-an-essay-in-environmental-humanities-9781786942296","title":"Volcanoes in Eighteenth-Century Europe: An Essay","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis study explores the explosive history of volcanoes and volcanic thought in eighteenth-century Europe, arguing that the topic of the volcano informed almost all areas of human enquiry and endeavour at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEncountered on the Grand Tour, sought out by scientific explorers or endured by local populations in southern Italy and Iceland, erupting volcanoes were a physical reality for many Europeans in the eighteenth-century. For many others, they represented the very image of overwhelming natural power, whether this was ultimately attributed to spiritual or material causes. As such, the volcano proved an effective and versatile ‘tool for thinking’ in a century which ushered in modernity on several fronts: continental tourism, new earth sciences, the sublime and picturesque in art, industrial and political revolution, the conception of the modern nation-state, and early intimations of environmental and climate change. But the volcano also gives us, in the twenty-first century, a privileged site (as both topography and \u003ci\u003etopos\u003c\/i\u003e) at which we can reconnect disparate and divided fields of research across the sciences and the humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a rich variety of multi-lingual primary sources and the latest critical thinking, this study combines material and symbolic readings of eighteenth-century volcanism, constantly shifting frameworks, so as to consider this topical object through different disciplinary perspectives. The volcano is clearly transnational; this research also demonstrates how it is fundamentally transdisciplinary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A masterful work rich in detail, organized with compelling logic, and presented with vivid clarity.'\u003cbr\u003eTheodore Ziolkowski, \u003ci\u003eModern Language Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'McCallam’s book represents a valuable contribution to the field of the environmental humanities, in which he makes a strong case for atransdisciplinary approach to studying natural phenomena, such as volcanic eruptions and their remnants. This study will be of interest to literary scholars and historians working on the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment as well as to environmental scientists working on volcanic eruptions, as it clearly details the effects these events can have not only on the environment, but also on societies, literature, art, philosophy and politics.'Katrin Kleemann, \u003ci\u003eEnglish Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'McCallam’s book represents a valuable contribution to the field of the environmental humanities, in which he makes a strong case for a transdisciplinary approach to studying natural phenomena, such as volcanic eruptions and their remnants.' \u003cbr\u003e Katrin Kleemann, \u003ci\u003eEnglish Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1: From \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003elocus classicus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e to cosmopolitan picnic site\u003c\/b\u003eThe disturbing discovery of Herculaneum and PompeiiThe classical and empirical on EtnaCuriosity and katabasisGothic picnics on the volcano: Winckelmann and SadeTourist picnics on VesuviusFrom picnic sites to the land of cockaigneIncommensurability and measure\u003cb\u003eChapter 2: Two modern ‘Plinies’ and the empirical turn\u003c\/b\u003eOn the influence of Kircher and chemistryVolcanological theories based on seawaters and electricityThe basalt controversy and the empirical turnVolcanological networks and rival schools of thought\u003cb\u003eChapter 3: On the volcanic sublime, its art and artifice\u003c\/b\u003eEighteenth-century theories of the sublime: Burke and KantThe Alpine sublime and the volcanic sublime\u003cbr\u003eThe volcano as tableauThe sublime volcano in artArtificial volcanoesThe uncanny fascination with lavaIndustrial volcanoesFrom the sublime spectacle to the sublime spectator\u003cb\u003eChapter 4: More heat than light? Natural philosophies of volcanism\u003c\/b\u003eAn anti-clerical volcanoThe volcano of popular passionsThe volcano as a source of enlightenmentPrometheus versus Empedocles\u003cb\u003eChapter 5: A volcanology of revolution 1789-1794\u003c\/b\u003eStaging the volcano of revolutionThe volcano and the TerrorJune 1794: Vesuvius and the Terror\u003cb\u003eChapter 6: Volcanic Iceland: conquering Hekla and surviving Laki\u003c\/b\u003eBanks on Staffa and HeklaThe deadliest volcano: Laki 1783Lived experiences of the Laki eruption and its effects 1783-1784Eighteenth-century explanations for volcanogenic weather\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusionBibliographyIndex","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470017499479,"sku":"9781786942296","price":98.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781786942296.jpg?v=1744897110","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/volcanoes-in-eighteenth-century-europe-an-essay-in-environmental-humanities-9781786942296","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}