Death and the Pearl maiden : plague, poetry, England /
Studies the plague in the poems of the Pearl Manuscript from the late medieval period. Marshals contemporary work on trauma, as well as other critical and historical methodologies, to consider how the pandemic informed the corpus of fourteenth-century Middle English literature itself.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
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| Summary: | Studies the plague in the poems of the Pearl Manuscript from the late medieval period. Marshals contemporary work on trauma, as well as other critical and historical methodologies, to consider how the pandemic informed the corpus of fourteenth-century Middle English literature itself. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814213902 0814213901 |