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"A sensitive, intelligent book."
—Sander L. Gilman, Professor of Humane Studies, Cornell University
How is AIDS treated in the contemporary plays of Larry Kramer and William Hoffman? How important is the Black Death to a reader of Boccaccio's Decameron? How have the historical and current outbreaks of contagious disease affected the creation of literature, and how has this literature in turn shaped our response to disease? Original and moving, To Blight with Plague addresses these and other central questions raised by literary works whose main themes revolve around contagious, epidemic disease and its social and psychological consequences.

To Blight With Plague: Studies in a Literary Theme

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"A sensitive, intelligent book." —Sander L. Gilman, Professor of Humane Studies, Cornell University How is AIDS treated in the contemporary... Read more

    Publisher: New York University Press
    Publication Date: 01/08/1993
    ISBN13: 9780814750834, 978-0814750834
    ISBN10: 0814750834

    Number of Pages: 252

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

    Description

    "A sensitive, intelligent book."
    —Sander L. Gilman, Professor of Humane Studies, Cornell University
    How is AIDS treated in the contemporary plays of Larry Kramer and William Hoffman? How important is the Black Death to a reader of Boccaccio's Decameron? How have the historical and current outbreaks of contagious disease affected the creation of literature, and how has this literature in turn shaped our response to disease? Original and moving, To Blight with Plague addresses these and other central questions raised by literary works whose main themes revolve around contagious, epidemic disease and its social and psychological consequences.

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