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Suffering in paradise : the bubonic plague in English literature from More to Milton
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- Creator
- Rebecca Totaro
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780820703626, 0820703621
- OCLC
- ocm57124067
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
- Plague in literature.
- Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 17th century.
- Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 16th century.
- Plague -- Great Britain -- History.
- Medicine in literature.
- Diseases in literature.