TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patrick Reilly
PY  - 2015
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453912829
TI  - Bills of Mortality
T2  - Disease and Destiny in Plague Literature from Early Modern to Postmodern Times
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-1282-9
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051443
N2  - Bills of Mortality: Disease and Destiny in Plague Literature from Early Modern to Postmodern Times 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. The volume is of interest to readers in both literary and scientific, especially medical, fields. In addition, it serves as an accessible introduction to plague literature and to the arena in which it has evolved since ancient times. To undergraduate and graduate students, Bills of Mortality affords an opportunity for scholarly engagement in a topic no less timely now than it was when plague struck Milan in 1629 or ravaged Venice in 1912 or felled Thebes in antiquity.
KW  - Medicine, History, Comparative literature, Plague literature
LA  - English
ER  -