Writing plague : language and violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 / Alfred Thomas.
2022
PN56.P5 T46 2022
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Title
Writing plague : language and violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 / Alfred Thomas.
ISBN
9783030948504 (electronic bk.)
3030948501 (electronic bk.)
3030948498
9783030948498
3030948501 (electronic bk.)
3030948498
9783030948498
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022].
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©2022.
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English
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10.1007/978-3-030-94850-4 doi
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PN56.P5 T46 2022
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809/.933561
Summary
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.
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New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Table of 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 Plagues The Thing: Pandemic and Religious Politics in Shakespeares Drama
5. The Brown Plague and the White Sickness: Fascism and the Crisis of Democracy in Twentieth-Century Plague Fiction and Film
6. Conclusion.
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 Plagues The Thing: Pandemic and Religious Politics in Shakespeares Drama
5. The Brown Plague and the White Sickness: Fascism and the Crisis of Democracy in Twentieth-Century Plague Fiction and Film
6. Conclusion.