The Plague in Print: Essential Elizabethan Sources, 1558-1603 (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies)

by Rebecca Totaro

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In The Plague in Print, Rebecca Totaro takes the reader into the world of plague-riddled Elizabethan England, documenting the development of distinct subgenres related to the plague and providing unprecedented access to important original sources of early modern plague writing. Totaro elucidates the interdisciplinary nature of plague writing, which raises religious, medical, civic, social, and individual concerns in early modern England. Each of the primary texts in the collection offers a glimpse into a particular subgenre of plague writing, beginning with Thomas Moulton's plague remedy and prayers published by the Church of England and devoted to the issue of...

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  • ISBN10 0271087285
  • ISBN13 9780271087283
  • Publish Date 8 December 2020 (first published 17 December 2010)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Pennsylvania State University Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 300
  • Language English