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Explores the central role of earthquake for disparate modes of critical engagement across a range of literary, philosophical, historical, and journalistic works from the seventeenth century through the late nineteenth, from the U.S., the wider Americas, and Europe.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Earthquake and Undeception
- PART I THE SOUTHERNIZATION OF DISASTER: Earthquake History and Theory
- 1: Elsewhere Catastrophe
- 2: Predatory Optimism
- 3: Pachacuti: Theory from the Torrid Zone
- PART II FROM SHAKING GROUND TO "THE STILLNESS"
- 4: The Fragile Ground of New England, 1638--1755
- 5: The Settler Colonial Sublime
- 6: Earthquake Amnesia
- 7: The Undeceiving Earth
- 8: The Seismic Civil War
- Epilogue
About the author
Anna Brickhouse,
Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English and American Studies, University of Virginia Anna Brickhouse is Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. Her first book,
Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere (Cambridge, 2004), received the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities from the Council of Graduate Schools as well as Honorable Mention for the Lora Romero first book prize from the American Studies Association. Her second book,
The Unsettlement of America (Oxford, 2014), was awarded the Early American Literature prize from the Society of Early Americanists and the James Russell Lowell prize from the Modern Language Association.
Summary
Explores the central role of earthquake for disparate modes of critical engagement across a range of literary, philosophical, historical, and journalistic works from the seventeenth century through the late nineteenth, from the U.S., the wider Americas, and Europe.
