"CASUALTIES AND DISASTERS": Defoe and the Interpretation of Climatic Instability.
The Great Storm of November 26-27, 1703, that struck Southern England and Wales became a benchmark throughout the eighteenth century for the destructive potential of Nature. This article examines Daniel Defoe's 1704 text "The Storm," a compilation of reports of damage from across England that Defoe...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 102 - 125 |
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