@article{1446187,
      author = {Thomas, Alfred,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1446187},
      title = {Writing plague : language and violence from the Black  Death to COVID-19 /},
      abstract = {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 todays 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.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94850-4},
      recid = {1446187},
      pages = {1 online resource},
}