To blight with plague : studies in a literary theme / Barbara Fass Leavy
1992, 1st edition. New York : New York University Press. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #404317
ISBN: 0814750591
Physical description; xi, 237 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index. Contents; 1. Introduction -- 2. The Historical and Ethical Significance of Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year -- 3. The Diseased Soul in Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Poe. "The Pardoner's Tale" (Geoffrey Chaucer). The Frame of the Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio). "The Masque of the Red Death" and other Tales (Edgar Allan Poe) -- 4. Ibsen's Ghosts and the Ghosts of Ibsen. Ghosts (Henrik Ibsen). As Is (William Hoffman). An Enemy of the People (Henrik Ibsen). The Normal Heart (Larry Kramer) -- 5. Microparasites, Macroparasites, and the Spanish Influenza. "Chip off the Old Block" (Wallace Stegner). Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Katherine Anne Porter) -- 6. Plague, Physician, Writer, and the Poison Damsel. Damaged Goods (Eugene Brieux). "Rappaccini's Daughter" (Nathaniel Hawthorne) -- 7. Medicine and Humanism in Albert Camus's The Plague. Subjects; Communicable diseases in literature. Diseases and literature. Literature and society. Literature Psychological aspects. AIDS (Disease). Diseases. Illness. Literature. Communicable diseases in literature. Diseases and literature. Literature and society. Literature Psychological aspects. Literature Psychology. Society in literature. Medicine in literature. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Maladies infectieuses dans la littérature. Maladies et littérature. Littérature et société. Littérature Psychologie. Sida. Médecine dans la littérature. Society in literature. Medicine in literature.
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