Literature in times of crisis /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ipswich, Massachusetts : Amenia, NY :
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Grey House Publishing,
[2021]
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| Series: | Critical insights.
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Table of Contents:
- About this volume / Robert C. Evans
- Why study premodern pandemic experience? / Rebecca Totaro
- "Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she" : inheritance, reproduction, and plague in Romeo and Juliet / Matthew Thiele
- Commentary on plague and disease in the early and later modern periods / Matthew Thiele
- Greek tragedy, black swans, and the coronavirus : the consolation of theatre / Edwin Wong
- Learning in wartime : Samuel Johnson and spiritual transcendence in The vanity of human wishes / Brandon Schneeberger
- Key ancient crises : construction of plot and the story of the Trojan War in the Iliad / Fabian Horn
- Crises in Sophocles's Antigone / Kenneth Kitchell
- Crisis and conspiracy in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar / Robert C. Evans
- Charles Brockden Brown's "The man at home" : crisis, isolation, and narrative / John C. Havard, et al.
- Apocalypse and postapocalype in nineteenth-century literature / Brett Stifflemire
- Crises in John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath, especially grampa's death / Robert C. Evans
- Apocalypse and postapocalypse in fiction and film, 1945-1970 / Brett Stifflemire
- The crisis of the archives : Susan Howe's "Articulation of sound forms in time" / Joyce Kelley
- Crises in Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad : the dramatic adaptation / Robert C. Evans
- The film version of Cormac McCarthy's The road : a survey of reviews / Kelsie Kato
- Crisis and crises in Homer's Iliad and Pat Barker's The silence of the girls / Maria Antonietta Struzziero
- Additional works on literature in times of crises
- Bibliography
- About the editor
- Contributors
- Index.