Literature in times of crisis /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Evans, Robert C., 1955- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ipswich, Massachusetts : Amenia, NY : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Grey House Publishing, [2021]
Series:Critical insights.
Subjects:
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.