Writing Plague

Writing Plague

Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19

Thomas, Alfred

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

04/2022

265

Dura

Inglês

9783030948498

15 a 20 dias

508

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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.
Literature, Science and Medicine Studies;plague;COVID-19;Black Death;pandemic narratives;anti-semitism;history of violence towards minorities;Freudian philosophy;Asian hate crimes;scapegoating minorities