To Blight with Plague: Studies in a Literary Theme

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New York University Press, 1992 - 237 من الصفحات
How important is the Black Death to a reading of Boccaccio's Decameron? How is AIDS treated in the contemporary plays of Larry Kramer and William Hoffman? How have the historical and current out-breaks of contagious disease affected the creation of literature, and how has this literature in turn shaped our response to disease? What can art hope to achieve in the midst of all epidemic?
In addressing these questions Barbara Fass Leavy studies literary works whose main themes have to do with some form of contagious or pestilential physical disease and its social or psychological consequences. Leavy investigates such works as A JournaI of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe; "The Pardoner's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer; the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio; "The Masque of the Red Death" and other tales by Edgar Allan Poe; Ghosts and An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen; As Is by William Hoffman; The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer; "Chip off the Old Block" by Wallace Stegner; Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter; Damaged Goods by Eugene Brieux; "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne; and The Plague by Albert Camus. Original and moving in its subject, To Blight with Plague brings us up to date on this important literature.

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