The Plague Epic in Early Modern England

Heroic Measures, 1603-1721
Herausgeber: Totaro, Rebecca

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Totaro presents together for the first time modernised versions of ten of the most poignant of plague poems in the English language-each composed in heroic verse and responding to the urgent need to justify the ways of God in times of social, religious and political upheaval. Showcasing unusual combinations of passion and restraint, heart-wrenching lamentation and nation-building fervour, these epic poems function as literary memorials to the plague-time fallen.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781138109414
• ISBN-10: 113810941X
• Artikelnr.: 57043320

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Totaro is Professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University, author of Suffering in Paradise: The Bubonic Plague in English Literature from More to Milton, and General Editor of the Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies book series.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Part 1 An Introduction to the Plague in Heroic Measures, 1603-1721: Part 2 The Poems: William Muggins, London's Mourning Garment
Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, News from Graves-end
John Davies, The Triumph of Death
Richard Milton, London's Misery
John Taylor, The Fearful Summer
Abraham Holland, A Description of the Great, Fearful and Prodigious Plague
George Wither, Britain's Remembrance
William Austin, Epiloimia epe or The Anatomy of the Pestilence
Thomas Clark, Meditations in my Confinement
Christopher Pitt, The Plague of Marseilles
Glossary
Index of names
Bibliography
Index.