The Literary Culture of Plague in Early Modern England

by Kathleen Miller

This book is about the literary culture that emerged during and in the aftermath of the Great Plague of London (1665). Textual transmission impacted upon and simultaneously was impacted by the events of the plague. This book examines the role of print and manuscript cultures on representations of the disease through micro-histories and case studies of writing from that time, interpreting the place of these media and the construction of authorship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137510560
• ISBN13: 9781137510563
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"