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During the seventeenth century, England was beset by three epidemics of the bubonic plague, each outbreak claiming between a quarter and a third of the population of London and other urban centers. Surveying a wide range of responses to these epidemics - sermons, medical tracts, pious exhortations, satirical pamphlets, and political commentary - "Plague Writing in Early Modern England" brings to life the many and complex ways Londoners made sense of such unspeakable devastation. Ernest B. Gilman argues that the plague writing of the period attempted unsuccessfully to rationalize the catastrophic and that its failure to account for the plague as an instrument of divine justice fundamentally threatened the core of Christian belief. Gilman also trains his critical eye on the works of Jonson, Donne, Pepys, and Defoe, which, he posits, can be more fully understood when put into the context of this century-long project to "write out" the plague. Ultimately, "Plague Writing in Early Modern England" is more than a compendium of artifacts of a bygone era; it holds up a distant mirror to reflect our own condition in the age of AIDS, super viruses, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, and the hovering threat of a global flu pandemic.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Plný název: Plague Writing in Early Modern England
• Autor: Ernest B. Gilman
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 253
• EAN: 9780226294094
• ISBN: 0226294099
• ID: 04545162
• Nakladatelství: The University of Chicago Press
• Hmotnost: 318 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 15 mm
• Datum vydání: 02. June 2009

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