Bills of Mortality

Patrick Reilly

ISBN 10: 143312422X / ISBN 13: 9781433124228

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Feb 2015, 2015

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Neuware -Bills of Mortality: Disease and Destiny in Plague Literature from Early Modern to Postmodern Times explores the dynamic between the fact of plague and the constructs of destiny deadly disease generates in literary texts ranging from Daniel Defoe¿s A Journal of the Plague Year to Tony Kushner¿s Angels in America. The volume is of interest to readers in both literary and scientific, especially medical, fields. In addition, it serves as an accessible introduction to plague literature and to the arena in which it has evolved since ancient times. To undergraduate and graduate students, Bills of Mortality affords an opportunity for scholarly engagement in a topic no less timely now than it was when plague struck Milan in 1629 or ravaged Venice in 1912 or felled Thebes in antiquity.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 212 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bills of Mortality
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Feb 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 143312422X
• ISBN 13: 9781433124228
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 231W x 155H x 16D millimeters 231 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 16 millimeters depth
• Weight: 453 grams

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Synopsis

Bills of Mortality: Disease and Destiny in Plague Literature from Early Modern to Postmodern Times explores the dynamic between the fact of plague and the constructs of destiny deadly disease generates in literary texts ranging from Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year to Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. The volume is of interest to readers in both literary and scientific, especially medical, fields. In addition, it serves as an accessible introduction to plague literature and to the arena in which it has evolved since ancient times. To undergraduate and graduate students, Bills of Mortality affords an opportunity for scholarly engagement in a topic no less timely now than it was when plague struck Milan in 1629 or ravaged Venice in 1912 or felled Thebes in antiquity.

About the Author

Patrick Reilly, PhD City University of New York, teaches in the English Department at Baruch College, CUNY. His articles have appeared in Journal for Camus Studies, The James Joyce Quarterly, Lire Sade, and Italica.