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03791aam a2200409Ii 4500 001 14A44BAC1B1B11EAA846F92397128E48 003 SILO 005 20191210010147 008 181206t20192019enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780198796428 020 $a 0198796420 035 $a (OCoLC)1077553096 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d ERASA $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d YDXIT $d OCLCF $d IaU $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 043 $a ff----- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/ff 050 4 $a PA6023.A2 $b G37 2019 082 04 $a 870.9 $2 23 100 1 $a Gardner, Hunter H., $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013026911 245 10 $a Pestilence and the body politic in Latin literature / $c Hunter H. Gardner. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford ; $b Oxford University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a x, 303 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-289) and indexes. 520 8 $a Scientists, journalists, novelists, and filmmakers continue to generate narratives of contagion, stories shaped by a tradition of disease discourse that extends to early Greco-Roman literature. Lucretius, Vergil, and Ovid developed important conventions of the western plague narrative as a response to the breakdown of the Roman res publica in the mid-first century CE and the reconstitution of stabilized government under the Augustan Principate (31 BCE-14 CE): relying on the metaphoric relationship between the human body and the body politic, these authors used largely fictive representations of epidemic disease to address the collapse of the social order and suggest remedies for its recovery. 0Theorists such as Susan Sontag and Rene Girard have observed how the rhetoric of disease frequently signals social, psychological, or political pathologies, but their observations have rarely been applied to Latin literary practices. Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature explores how the origins and spread of outbreaks described by Roman writers enact a drama in which the concerns of the individual must be weighed against those of the collective, staged in an environment signalling both reversion to a pre-historic Golden Age and the devastation characteristic of a post-apocalyptic landscape. Such innovations in Latin literature have impacted representations as diverse as Carlo Coppola's paintings of a seventeenth-century outbreak of bubonic plague in Naples and Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam Trilogy. Understanding why Latin writers developed these tropes for articulating contagious disease and imbuing them with meaning for the collapse of the Roman body politic allows us to clarify what more recent disease discourses mean both for their creators and for the populations they afflict in contemporary media. 650 0 $a Latin literature $x History and criticism. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106708 650 0 $a Diseases in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003930 650 0 $a Epidemics $z Rome $x History. 650 0 $a Epidemics in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006000974 650 7 $a Diseases in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00895210 650 7 $a Epidemics. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00914079 650 7 $a Epidemics in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01903142 650 7 $a Latin literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00993331 651 7 $a Rome (Empire) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204885 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210014846.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=14A44BAC1B1B11EAA846F92397128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search