The Plague Epic in Early Modern England: Heroic Measures, 1603-1721
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.95 (516 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1409441717 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This approach offers scholars and students the best of both worlds; Totaro has made these texts more accessible while preserving much of their authenticity.' Renaissance Quarterly 'Totaro shines a valuable light on a body of verse that has been neglected and places it within a variety of contexts that are literary, medical, political, and theological, and her anthology will be a valuable resource for those in the field of literature and medicine and the medical humanities more generally.' The British Society for Literature and Science . Original printed marginal notes are included as footnotes. 'Totaro preserv
"British Society for Literature and Science - review" according to M.C.J.M.. This is an excellent edition in all respects. Totaro shines a valuable light on a body of verse that has been neglected and places it within a variety of contexts that are literary, medical, political, and theological, and her anthology will be a valuable resource for those in the field of literature and medicine and the medical humanities more generally.--David Walker, Northumbria University, reviewed for the British Society for Literature and Science ([] early-modern-england/)Table of ContentsPart 1 An Introduction to the Plague in Heroic Measures, 160British Society for Literature and Science - review This is an excellent edition in all respects. Totaro shines a valuable light on a body of verse that has been neglected and places it within a variety of contexts that are literary, medical, political, and theological, and her anthology will be a valuable resource for those in the field of literature and medicine and the medical humanities more generally.--David Walker, Northumbria University, reviewed for the British Society for Literature and Science ([] early-modern-england/)Table of ContentsPart 1 An Introduction to the Plague in Heroic Measures, 1603-1721Part 2 The Poems . -1721Part 2 The Poems
In an extended introduction, Rebecca Totaro makes the case that these poems belong to a distinct literary genre that she calls the 'plague epic.' Because the poems are formally and thematically related to Milton's great epics Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, this volume represents a rare discovery of previously unidentified sources of great value for Milton studies and scholarly research into the epic, didactic verse, cultural studies of the seventeenth century, illness as metaphor, and interdisciplinary approaches to illness, natural disaster, trauma, and memory.. The Plague Epic in Early Modern England: Heroic Measures, 1603-1721 presents together, for the first time, modernized 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
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.