Victories never last : reading and caregiving in a time of plague /
"We are far from knowing how and when the present pandemic will end, nor can we know what will be the most enduring stories that writers tell about it. We can, however, turn for guidance to earlier writers who confronted past plagues. Robert Zaretsky spent much of the past year working as a vol...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Thucydides and the great plague of Athens
- Marcus Aurelius and the Antonine Plague
- Michel de Montaigne and the bubonic plague
- Daniel Defoe and the great plague of London
- Albert Camus and la peste brune
- Epilogue: from the last man to the first man.