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04113aam a2200661 i 4500 001 F386EC023D8C11EE8AE814B62EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230818010103 008 220311s2022 sz a b 001 0 eng 020 $a 3030948498 020 $a 9783030948498 035 $a (OCoLC)1308471823 040 $a NLM $b eng $e rda $c NLM $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d UKMGB $d UND $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 04 $a PN56.P5 $b T46 2022 060 00 $a WA 11.1 082 04 $a 809.933561 $2 23 100 1 $a Thomas, Alfred, $d 1958- $e author. 245 10 $a Writing plague : $b language and violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 / $c Alfred Thomas. 264 1 $a Cham, Switzerland : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c [2022] 300 $a xxiv, 265 pages : $b illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a The new Middle Ages 520 $a Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to plague writing from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human "hardware" has changed enormously between the medieval past and the present the human "software" has remained remarkably similar across time. Through close readings of works by medieval writers like Guillaume de Machaut, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century, select plays by Shakespeare, and modern plague fiction and film, Alfred Thomas convincingly demonstrates psychological continuities between the Black Death and COVID-19. Thomas highlights the danger of scapegoating vulnerable minority groups such as Asian Americans and Jews in todays America. This wide-ranging study will thus be of interest not only to medievalists but also to students of modernity as well as the general reader. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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 Plagues The Thing: Pandemic and Religious Politics in Shakespeares Drama -- 5. The Brown Plague and the White Sickness: Fascism and the Crisis of Democracy in Twentieth-Century Plague Fiction and Film -- 6. Conclusion. 650 0 $a Literature, Medieval $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Literature, Modern $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Diseases and literature. 650 0 $a Plague in literature. 650 0 $a Epidemics in literature. 650 0 $a Diseases in literature. 650 0 $a Plague $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Epidemics $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Antisemitism. 650 0 $a Violence. 650 12 $a Epidemics $x history. 650 12 $a Plague $x history. 650 22 $a Medicine in Literature $x history. 650 22 $a Sociological Factors. 650 22 $a Violence $x history. 650 22 $a History, Medieval. 650 22 $a History, Modern 1601- 650 7 $a Antisemitism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00810769 650 7 $a Diseases and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00895207 650 7 $a Diseases in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00895210 650 7 $a Epidemics in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01903142 650 7 $a Epidemics $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00914088 650 7 $a Literature, Medieval. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000151 650 7 $a Literature, Modern. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000172 650 7 $a Plague in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01065063 650 7 $a Plague $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01065056 650 7 $a Violence. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01167224 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Thomas, Alfred, 1958- $t Writing plague. $d Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 $z 9783030948504 $w (OCoLC)1312714070 830 0 $a New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031840.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F386EC023D8C11EE8AE814B62EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search