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To blight with plague : studies in a literary theme

These studies are concerned with the questions raised by literary works whose main themes revolve around contagious, epidemic disease and its social and psychological consequences.
Print Book, English, 1993
New York Univ Press, New York, 1993
9780814750834, 0814750834
1021260498
1. Introduction
2. The Historical and Ethical Significance of Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year
3. The Diseased Soul in Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Poe. "The Pardoner's Tale" (Geoffrey Chaucer). The Frame of the Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio). "The Masque of the Red Death" and other Tales (Edgar Allan Poe)
4. Ibsen's Ghosts and the Ghosts of Ibsen. Ghosts (Henrik Ibsen). As Is (William Hoffman). An Enemy of the People (Henrik Ibsen). The Normal Heart (Larry Kramer)
5. Microparasites, Macroparasites, and the Spanish Influenza. "Chip off the Old Block" (Wallace Stegner). Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Katherine Anne Porter)
6. Plague, Physician, Writer, and the Poison Damsel. Damaged Goods (Eugene Brieux). "Rappaccini's Daughter" (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
7. Medicine and Humanism in Albert Camus's The Plague