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Writing plague = language and violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Writing plague/ by Alfred Thomas.
Reminder of title:	language and violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 /
Author:	Thomas, Alfred.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2022.,
Description:	xxiv, 265 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	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.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Literature, Medieval - History and criticism. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94850-4
ISBN:	9783030948504

Writing plague = language and violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 /
Thomas, Alfred.

Writing plaguelanguage and violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 /[electronic resource] :by Alfred Thomas. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022. - xxiv, 265 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - New Middle Ages,2945-5944. - New Middle Ages..

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.

Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to "plague writing" from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human "hardware" has changed enormously between the medieval past and the present the human "software" has remained remarkably similar across time. Through close readings of works by medieval writers like Guillaume de Machaut, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century, select plays by Shakespeare, and modern "plague" fiction and film, Alfred Thomas convincingly demonstrates psychological continuities between the Black Death and COVID-19. Thomas highlights the danger of scapegoating vulnerable minority groups such as Asian Americans and Jews in today's America. This wide-ranging study will thus be of interest not only to medievalists but also to students of modernity as well as the general reader.

ISBN: 9783030948504

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-94850-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

571754
Literature, Medieval
--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PN56.P5

Dewey Class. No.: 809.933561

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