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Contents
Preface. The End of the World as We Knew It
I. The Local and the General
II. Monotheological Antecedents: Life against the Living (Genesis, Exodus)
III. Polytheistic Antecedents: The Plague as Stasis (Thucydides)
IV. Storytelling as Friction (Boccaccio, The Decameron)
V. The Lutheran Response: The Neighbor (Luther, "Should a Christian Flee the Plague?")
VI. "Out of all Measures" (Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year)
VII. Tragedy as Trauerspiel (Kleist, The Tragedy of Robert Guiscard, Duke of the Normans)

VIII. Preexisting Conditions (Artaud, "The Theater and the Plague")
IX. Confinement (Camus, The Plague)
X. Living with Plagues (Hölderlin, "Remarks on Sophocles's Oedipus")
Notes
Index