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Writing Plague = Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 /
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正題名/作者:
Writing Plague/ by Alfred Thomas.
其他題名:
Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 /
作者:
Thomas, Alfred.
面頁冊數:
XXIV, 265 p. 32 illus., 30 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:
Springer Nature eBook
標題:
History of Medieval Europe. -
電子資源:
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 Plague
Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 /[electronic resource] :by Alfred Thomas. - 1st ed. 2022. - XXIV, 265 p. 32 illus., 30 illus. in color.online resource. - The New Middle Ages,2945-5944. - The 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:
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LC Class. No.: PN661-694
Dewey Class. No.: 809.02
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