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Author:

Totaro, Rebecca Carol Noel, 1968-

Title:

Suffering in paradise : the bubonic plague in English literature from More to Milton / Rebecca Totaro.

Publisher:

Duquesne University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xiv, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index.

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.

Series:

Medieval & Renaissance literary studies

ISBN:

9780820703626 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
0820703621 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57124067

LCCN:

2004024178

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)