1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820307203321

Autore

Speth James Gustave

Titolo

Red sky at morning : America and the crisis of the global environment / / James Gustave Speth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, Conn. ; ; London, : Yale University Press, 2004

ISBN

9786611722043

1-281-72204-9

0-300-12832-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 329 pages)

Collana

Yale Nota bene

Disciplina

363.700973

Soggetti

Global environmental change

Environmental protection

Globalization - Environmental aspects

Environmental policy - United States

Environmental protection - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"With a new afterword on global change."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910300039603321

Autore

Shinn Abigail

Titolo

Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England : Tales of Turning / / by Abigail Shinn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-96577-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 pages)

Collana

Early Modern Literature in History, , 2634-5919

Disciplina

809.933824824

Soggetti

Literature, Modern

British literature

Theater—History

Christianity

Early Modern/Renaissance Literature

British and Irish Literature

Theatre History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Convert and the Book -- Chapter Two: Crafting the Convert -- Chapter 3: Narrative Topographies and the Geographies of Conversion -- Chapter 4: Corporeal Rhetoric: Perception and Proof in the Conversion Narrative -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a study of English conversion narratives between 1580 and 1660. Focusing on the formal, stylistic properties of these texts, it argues that there is a direct correspondence between the spiritual and rhetorical turn. Furthermore, by focusing on a comparatively early period in the history of the conversion narrative the book charts for the first time writers’ experimentation and engagement with rhetorical theory before the genre’s relative stabilization in the 1650s. A cross confessional study analyzing work by both Protestant and Catholic writers, this book explores conversion’s relationship with reading; the links between conversion, eloquence, translation and trope; the conflation of spiritual movement with literal travel; and the use of the body as a site for spiritual knowledge and proof.