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Plague Writing in Early Modern England
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Pages: 309
Authors: Ernest B. Gilman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-01 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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During the seventeenth century, England was beset by three epidemics of the bubonic plague, each outbreak claiming between a quarter and a third of the populati
Writing Plague
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Susan L. Einbinder
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-10-11 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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A wave of plague swept the cities of northern Italy in 1630–31, ravaging Christian and Jewish communities alike. In Writing Plague Susan L. Einbinder explores
The Plague in Print
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Rebecca Totaro
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12 - Publisher:

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Although we are currently bombarded with numerous health scares--AIDS, West Nile virus, avian flu, and the recent swine flu, just to name a few that now fill ou
Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film
Language: en
Pages: 237
Authors: J. Cooke
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-14 - Publisher: Springer

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This book is an account of the history and continuation of plague as a potent metaphor since the disease ceased to be an epidemic threat in Western Europe, enga
Nights of Plague
Language: en
Pages: 746
Authors: Orhan Pamuk
Categories: Fiction
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From the the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Part detective story, part historical epic—a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague ravaging a