Writing plague : language and violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 /: language and violence from the Black Death to COVID-19. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alfred Thomas.
• Authors: Thomas, Alfred, 1958-
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19.2. The Pardoner, the Prioress, and the Pandemic: Jews and Other Scapegoats in Fourteenth-Century European Culture.3. Death and the Maiden: Mourning and Melancholy in Pearl and the Late Medieval European Elegy.4. The Plague's The Thing: Pandemic and Religious Politics in Shakespeare's Drama.5. The Brown Plague and the White Sickness: Fascism and the Crisis of Democracy in Twentieth-Century Plague Fiction and Film.6. Conclusion.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 809.933561; Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; Literature, Modern -- History and criticism; Diseases and literature; Plague in literature; Epidemics in literature; Diseases in literature; Plague -- Social aspects; Epidemics -- Social aspects; Antisemitism; Violence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030948504
• Related ISBNs: 9783030948498
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