Theatres of Eighteenth-Century Weather

Denys Van Renen is Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, USA, and the 2023-2024 Distinguished Professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy. His previous three books include The Other Exchange, Nature and the New Science, and Environmental Justice and the Scottish Picaresque. Van Renen has also co-edited a collection, Beyond 1776: Globalizing the Cultures of the American Revolution.

• Chapter 1 - Introduction.- Chapter 2 - “The Rareness of the Figures”: Air and Accessibility in Aphra Behn’s Emperor of the Moon and Elkanah Settle’s The World in the Moon.- Chapter 3 - “Storming at Heav’n and Thee!”: Ecological Wastelands in Addison’s Cato.- Chapter 4 - “I’ll have none of these airs”: The West Indies and British Inertia in Mary Pix and John Gay.- Chapter 5 - “Art against art”: Sentimentality, Mid-Century Drama, and the North American Crises”.- Chapter 6 - “A Winter Drama”: Decolonizing South America and Environmental Restoration in Sheridan’s Pizzaro.-  Chapter 7 - Epilogue : “‘Lucretius Englisht’: Nahum Tate’s Ecophobic Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus.