List of illustrations
Michel Delon, Avant-propos
Theodore E. D. Braun and John B. Radner, Introduction
Malcolm Jack, Destruction and regeneration: Lisbon, 1755
Charles D. James and Jan T. Kozak, Representations of the 1755
Lisbon earthquake
Russell R. Dynes, The Lisbon earthquake of 1755: the first modern
disaster
Diego Téllez Alarcia, Spanish interpretations of the Lisbon
Earthquake between 1755 and the war of 1762
Carmen Espejo Cala, Spanish news pamphlets on the 1755 earthquake:
trade strategies of the printers of Seville
Matthias Georgi, The Lisbon earthquake and scientific knowledge in
the British public sphere
Robert G. Ingram, ‘The trembling Earth is God’s herald’:
earthquakes, religion, and public life in Britain during the
1750s
Robert Webster, The Lisbon earthquake: John and Charles Wesley
Reconsidered
Grégory Quenet, Déconstruire l’événement. Un séisme philosophique
ou une catastrophe naturelle?
Theodore E. D. Braun, Voltaire and Le Franc de Pompignan: poetic
reactions to the Lisbon earthquake
Anne-Sophie Barrovecchio, A propos de Voltaire, de maître André et
du Tremblement de terre de Lisbonne: histoire d’une
supercherie tragique de l’avocat Jean-Henri Marchand
Catriona Seth, ‘Je ne pourrai pas en faire le récit’: Le
tremblement de terre de Lisbonne vu par Le Brun, Marchand et
Genlis
Jeff Loveland, Guéneau de Montbeillard, the Collection
académique and the great Lisbon earthquake
Anne Saada et Jean Sgard, Tremblements dans la presse
Gilbert Larochelle, Voltaire: du tremblement de terre de Lisbonne à
la déportation des Acadiens
Monika Gisler, Optimism and theodicy: perceptions of the Lisbon
earthquake in protestant Switzerland
Luanne Frank, No way out: Heinrich von Kleist’s Erdbeben in
Chile
Estela J. Vieira, Coping and creating after catastrophe: the
significance of the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 on the literary
culture of Portugal
Summaries
Bibliography
Index
'The chapters on history, politics, scientific debate, press
coverage and illustrations are invaluable: well written and highly
informative. These make up the majority of the volume, twelve out
of eighteen chapters, and will be of interest to a wide variety of
specialists from many disciplines. For that reason alone, I would
recommend this volume highly. The four or so articles which deal
specifically with Voltaire and his contemporaries will no doubt be
of relevance to specialists in that particular field and are
entirely appropriate in the context of his volume.'
British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies
'One cannot often say of a volume of scholarly essays that it makes
for absorbing reading, but it is true in this case.'
The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer
'The anthology’s strength lies in the presentation of a
multifaceted evaluation of the Lisbon earthquake, analogous to the
international response it provoked in the eighteenth century.'
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