Suffering in Paradise : the bubonic plague in English literature from More to Milton /
Totaro, Rebecca Carol Noel,1968-
Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press,
c2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index.
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
English literature
Plague in literature.
Literature and medicine
Literature and medicine
Plague
Medicine in literature.
Diseases in literature.