Extremwetter

The humanities and cultural studies are repeatedly invited to participate in research on global climate change. However, this interdisciplinary task rests on epistemological preconditions that need to be made transparent. Against this background, this edited volume asks what might constitute a genuine contribution to research on global climate change by the humanities and cultural studies. The volume approaches this question by dealing with early modern literature that examines extreme weather events during the Little Ice Age. In the same way as humans do today, humans back then experienced climate change through extreme weather events, and they tried to provide intellectual access to these experiences. This edited volume deals with German and English-speaking authors who lived between 1600 and 1850 (A. Coppe, S. Dach, J. Rist, P. Gerhard, D. Defoe, B.H. Brockes, F. Hölderlin and J. Gotthelf). They dealt with climate-induced extremes in different ways and, in doing so, made information about them available to society.

With contributions by
Dr. Gero Bauer, Dr. Stefan Hofer, Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Junior-Doz. Dr. Elisabeth Jütten, Dr. Simon Meisch, Dr. Tina-Karen Pusse, Prof. Dr. Ruth Scoralick, Prof. Dr. Tanja van Hoorn.