| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Interventions: new studies in medieval culture |
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Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
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| Contents |
Trauma, witness, and representation in Cleanness -- Pearl and the language of plague -- Flight and enclosure in Patience -- Sex, death, and social change in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Conclusion: A pestilence whispered |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Pearl (Middle English poem) -- Criticism, Textual
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Pearl (Middle English poem) fast |
| Subject |
Plague in literature.
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Plague -- England -- London
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English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English poetry -- Middle English
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Plague
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Plague in literature
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Poetry by individual poets.
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Literature.
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England -- London
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814276815 |
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0814276814 |
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