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Austin, Jodie.

The Poetics of Pestilence: Plague-Time and the Writing Culture in Early Modern England.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Poetics of Pestilence: Plague-Time and the Writing Culture in Early Modern England.
Author:	Austin, Jodie.
Description:	212 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-10(E), Section: A.
Notes:	Advisers: Ramie Targoff; William Flesch.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-10A(E).
Subject:	English literature.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3622220
ISBN:	9781303938504

The Poetics of Pestilence: Plague-Time and the Writing Culture in Early Modern England.
Austin, Jodie.

The Poetics of Pestilence: Plague-Time and the Writing Culture in Early Modern England. - 212 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brandeis University, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation addresses the relationship of writing and plague in seventeenth-century England in the works of four authors: the "plague pamphlets" of Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist, William Shakespeare's plays Measure for Measure, and Timon of Athens, and John Donne's Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions. Through their respective genres, they bestow upon their readers the means to better understand, defend, and inoculate themselves against the effects of disease by forging a connection between the fit reader of the physical body and the body politic. Despite their separate approaches, all of these texts offer primers for a hermeneutics of diseased flesh, ravaged metaphorically and literally by the plague, while simultaneously suggesting the possibility for cultural/social redemption through pathological crisis.

ISBN: 9781303938504Subjects--Topical Terms:

181224
English literature.

The Poetics of Pestilence: Plague-Time and the Writing Culture in Early Modern England.
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520 $a Modern tropes of disease, from biological warfare to viral media, maintain their roots in a profoundly historical relationship between models of contagion and technological revolution. It thus behooves us to revisit early modern literature of the plague in order to better understand the course of our own encounters with disease, and by extension, the transformations they will possibly produce in a digital era that mirrors the epistemological explosion of the Renaissance. The goal of these chapters is to argue for a reconsideration of the plague as a culturally catalyzing force, specifically within the realm of literature, by taking more seriously the impact of the pestilence on the related projects of nation-building, print technology, and authorship in early modern England.
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