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"In this book, Rebecca Totaro provides a unique and timely discussion of the bubonic plague as it shaped literature in England from 1500 through the first half of the eighteenth century."--Jacket.
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Subjects
Diseases in literature, English literature, History, History and criticism, Literature and medicine, Medicine in literature, Plague, Plague in literature, Litterature anglaise, Histoire et critique, Peste dans la litterature, Litterature et medecine, Histoire, Peste, Medecine dans la litterature, Maladies dans la litterature, Utopias, History, 17th Century, History, 16th CenturyPlaces
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Suffering in paradise: the bubonic plague in English literature from More to Milton
2005, Duquesne University Press
in English
0820703621 9780820703626
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Suffering in plague-time
The best practices for change
Thomas More's pestilence in parentheses
Breath infect breath : plague in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens
What a great loss in hope? : Jonson's the Alchemist
Plague in the foundation : building toward the New Atlantis
Fly from that pestilent destruction : Margaret Cavendish's prescriptions
Fables and fancies : the style of hope in Bacon and Cavendish
The rectification of air and the pursuit of paradise.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index.

