Research Catalog

Title

The plague / editor, Robert C. Evans.

Publication

• Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, Inc., [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

Evans, Robert C., 1955-

Description

xxxiv, 265 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Critical insights

Uniform Title

Critical insights.

Subject

• Camus, Albert, 1913-1960
• Peste (Camus, Albert)
• Plague in literature
• Medicine in literature
• Literature
• Algeria > In literature
• Algeria

Genre/Form

Literary criticism.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

About This Volume / Robert C. Evans -- Camus and Plague Literature / Rebecca Totaro -- Biography of Albert Camus / Robert C. Evans -- Critical Contexts. Benefitting from Plague in Camus's The Plague / Maciej Kałuża -- The Earliest American Newspaper Reviews of Albert Camus's The Plague / Robert C. Evans -- From Thucydides to Simone Weil: Friendship and Heroism in Albert Camus's The Plague -- Edwin Wong -- "A Grim-Jawed Angel of Mercy" or "There's No Question of Heroism in All This"? Crisis and Response in Albert Camus's The Plague and Robert A. Heinlein's "Sky Lift" / Rafeeq O. McGiveron -- Critical Readings. Life Can Be the Plague: Camus's Reification -- Susan Howard Moss -- Camus's The Plague and the Health Humanities / Robert C. Evans -- States of Plague, by Kaplan and Marris: An Overview and Review / Robert C. Evans -- "Is a Priest Justified in Consulting a Doctor?" Reflections on the Case of Paneloux and Rieux in The Plague / Mark Orme -- The Women in The Plague / Gene Fendt -- The Absent Wife: An Embarrassing Oversight or Fundamental Other in The Plague? / Meaghan Emery -- Albert Camus's Augury of Post-Truth Necropolitics: Reading The Plague in the Twenty-first Century / Harry Fairless and James Gourley -- "There are more things to admire in men than to despise": The Optimistic Satire of The Plague by Albert Camus / Matthew M. Thiele -- Language and the "Duty of memory" in The Plague / Peter Dunwoodie -- Rereading Camus's The Plague with Its Artistry in Mind / Robert C. Evans -- Resources -- Chronology of Albert Camus's Life -- Works by Albert Camus -- Bibliography -- About the Editor -- Contributors -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 23-1863

ISBN

• 163700432X
• 9781637004326

OCLC

1345513112

Title

The plague / editor, Robert C. Evans.

Publisher

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, Inc., [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical insights

Critical insights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Evans, Robert C., 1955- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 23-1863