عنوان

Disaster in Nineteenth-Century England and France:

شماره

TL6tq90972

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Disaster in Nineteenth-Century England and France:

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Malone, Brian

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

A Literary and Cultural History

نام ساير پديدآوران

Terdiman, Richard

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

UC Santa Cruz

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2014

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

UC Santa Cruz

امتياز متن

2014

متن يادداشت

This dissertation is an exploration of the discourses of disaster in nineteenth-century England and France. I focus on a variety of catastrophic events that raise urgent questions about social vulnerability in this period, including floods, railway collisions, famines, and epidemics. As part of everyday life in the nineteenth century, the threat of disaster made specific demands on both individuals and social formations. My project traces the ways in which discourses of disaster became embedded in lived experience for individuals and collectives. This dissertation, then, is a phenomenological history of the disastrous nineteenth century, an exploration of how it feels to live in a time of catastrophe. In my chapters, I focus on specific aspects of lived experience and their relationship to disaster narratives. My readings encompass a wide range of texts, including literary works, as well as scientific, journalistic, medical, and historical discourses. In the geological work of Georges Cuvier and George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, I identify a narrative logic of impending disaster and its corresponding affect of dread. Reading medical treatises alongside depictions of railway accidents by Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Émile Zola, I argue for a model of disaster as a type of contagious public trauma. Finally, in a reading of Bleak House, I explore the incipient discourses of catastrophization and ethical responsibility that developed during the cholera epidemics of the mid-nineteenth century. By elaborating these discourses and their genealogy in the nineteenth century, I provide a way of considering our own lived experiences in the disastrous present of the Anthropocene.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Malone, Brian

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Terdiman, Richard

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

UC Santa Cruz

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y