| 书目名称 | Writing Plague | | 副标题 | Language and Violenc | | 编辑 | Alfred Thomas | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Argues that reactions to pandemics between the middle ages and the present have largely remained the same.Analyzes the current resurgence of anti-semitism while also examining a history of violence to | | 丛书名称 | The New Middle Ages | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 .brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human “hardware” has changed enormously between the medieval past and the present (urbanization, technology, mass warfare, and advances in medical science), the human “software” (emotional and psychological reactions to the shock of pandemic) has remained remarkably similar across time. Through close readings of works by medieval writers like Guillaume de Machaut, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century, select plays by Shakespeare, and modern “plague” fiction and film, Alfred Thomas convincingly demonstrates psychological continuities between the Black Death and COVID-19. In showing how in times of plague human beings repress their fears and fantasies and displace them onto the threatening “other,” Thomas highlights the danger of scapegoating vulnerable minority groups such as Asian Americans and Jews in today’s America. This wide-ranging study will thus be of interest not only to medievalists but also to students of modernity as well as | | 出版日期 | Book 2022 | | 关键词 | Literature, Science and Medicine Studies; plague; COVID-19; Black Death; pandemic narratives; anti-semiti | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94850-4 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-94852-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-94850-4Series ISSN 2945-5936 Series E-ISSN 2945-5944 | | issn_series | 2945-5936 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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