Suffering in paradise
Subtitle: the bubonic plague in English literature from More to Milton
By: Rebecca Totaro.
Series: Medieval & Renaissance literary studies; Medieval and Renaissance literary studies
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Plague in literature.; Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Plague -- Great Britain -- History.; Medicine in literature.; Diseases in literature.
Description: "In this book, Rebecca Totaro provides a unique and timely discussion of the bubonic plague as it shaped literature in England from 1500 through the first half of the eighteenth century."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index.
Table of contents: title: Suffering in plague-time; title: The best practices for change; title: Thomas More's pestilence in parentheses; title: Breath infect breath : plague in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens; title: What a great loss in hope? : Jonson's the Alchemist; title: Plague in the foundation : building toward the New Atlantis; title: Fly from that pestilent destruction : Margaret Cavendish's prescriptions; title: Fables and fancies : the style of hope in Bacon and Cavendish; title: The rectification of air and the pursuit of paradise.