"Literature and Weather. Shakespeare - Goethe - Zola" is dedicated
to the relation between literature and weather, i.e. a cultural
practice and an everyday phenomenon that has played very different
epistemic roles in the history of the world. The study undertakes
an archaeology of literature's affinity to the weather which tells
the story of literature's weathery self-reflection and its creative
reinventions as a medium in different epistemic and social
circumstances. The book undertakes extensive close readings of
three exemplary literary texts: Shakespeare's The Tempest, Goethe's
The Sufferings of Young Werther and Zola's The Rougon-Macquarts.
These readings provide the basis for reconstructing three distinct
formations, negotiating the relationship between literature and
weather in the 17th, the 18th and the 19th centuries. The study is
a pioneering contribution to the recent debates of literature's
indebtedness to the environment. It initiates a rewriting of
literary history that is weather-sensitive; the question of
literature's agency, its power to affect, cannot be raised without
understanding the way the weather works in a certain cultural
formation.
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