TY  - GEN
N2  - 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.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-030-94850-4
DO  - doi
AB  - 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.
T1  - Writing plague :language and violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 /
AU  - Thomas, Alfred,
CN  - PN56.P5
ID  - 1446187
KW  - Literature, Medieval
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - Diseases and literature.
KW  - Plague in literature.
KW  - Epidemics in literature.
KW  - Diseases in literature.
KW  - Plague
KW  - Epidemics
KW  - Antisemitism.
KW  - Violence.
KW  - Littérature médiévale
KW  - Maladies et littérature.
KW  - Peste dans la littérature.
KW  - Maladies dans la littérature.
KW  - Peste
KW  - Antisémitisme.
KW  - Violence.
SN  - 9783030948504
SN  - 3030948501
TI  - Writing plague :language and violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 /
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-94850-4
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-94850-4
ER  -