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Death and the Pearl maiden : plague, poetry, England

Title
Death and the Pearl maiden : plague, poetry, England / David K. Coley.
Author
Coley, David K.
Publication
  • Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2019]
  • ©2019

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Description
xi, 220 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
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"--
Series Statement
Interventions: new studies in medieval culture
Uniform Title
Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
Subject
  • Pearl (Middle English poem) > Criticism, Textual
  • Pearl (Middle English poem)
  • 1100-1500
  • Plague in literature
  • Plague > England > London
  • English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
  • English poetry > Middle English
  • Plague
  • England > London
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 19-6669
ISBN
  • 9780814213902
  • 0814213901
LCCN
2018044681
OCLC
1048943934
Author
Coley, David K., author.
Title
Death and the Pearl maiden : plague, poetry, England / David K. Coley.
Publisher
Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Interventions: new studies in medieval culture
Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index.
Chronological Term
1100-1500
Research Call Number
JFE 19-6669
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