To Blight With Plague

Studies in a Literary Theme

By: Barbara Fass Leavy

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Paperback | 31 August 1993

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"A sensitive, intelligent book."
Sander L. Gilman, Professor of Humane Studies, Cornell University
How is AIDS treated in the contemporary plays of Larry Kramer and William Hoffman? How important is the Black Death to a reader of Boccaccio's Decameron? How have the historical and current outbreaks of contagious disease affected the creation of literature, and how has this literature in turn shaped our response to disease? Original and moving, To Blight with Plague addresses these and other central questions raised by literary works whose main themes revolve around contagious, epidemic disease and its social and psychological consequences.

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“This book is a welcome addition to the new scholarship on Caribbean migration and in particular to the burgeoning interest in second-generation Caribbeans in America."
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Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
The Historical and Ethical Significance of Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year	p. 21
The Diseased Soul in Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Poe	p. 41
"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)
Ibsen's Ghosts and the Ghosts of Ibsen	p. 83
Ghosts (Henrik Ibsen)
As Is (William Hoffman)
An Enemy of the People (Henrik Ibsen)
The Normal Heart (Larry Kramer)
Microparasites, Macroparasites, and the Spanish Influenza	p. 127
"Chip off the Old Block" (Wallace Stegner)
Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Katherine Anne Porter)
Plague, Physician, Writer, and the Poison Damsel	p. 157
Damaged Goods (Eugene Brieux)
"Rappaccini's Daughter" (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Medicine and Humanism in Albert Camus's The Plague	p. 185
Notes	p. 207
References	p. 221
Index	p. 233
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