Bills of mortality : disease and destiny in plague literature from early modern to postmodern times / Patrick Reilly.
- Reilly, Patrick
- Date:
- [2015]
- Books
About this work
Description
"'Bills of Mortality' 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'. -- Back cover.
Publication/Creation
New York, NY : Peter Lang, [2015]
Physical description
201 pages ; 24 cm.
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-192) and index.
Languages
Subjects
- Diseases in literature
- Plague in literature
- Epidemics in literature
- Medicine in Literaturehistory
- Epidemics
- Plague
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Cholera
- Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. Tod in Venedig. English.
- Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. Peste. English.
- Kushner, Tony. Angels in America (1993)
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Journal of the plague year.
- Manzoni, Alessandro, 1785-1873. Promessi sposi. English.
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineFL.AIOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9781433124228
- 143312422X