The Literary Culture of Plague in Early Modern England

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Kathleen Miller

   Pages 1-23

3. Continuities in Plague Writing

   • Kathleen Miller

   Pages 25-55

4. Medical Debates on Plague

   • Kathleen Miller

   Pages 57-93

5. Plague and Nonconformity

   • Kathleen Miller

   Pages 95-129

6. Katherine Austen’s Reckoning with Plague in Book M

   • Kathleen Miller

   Pages 131-159

7. Pestilence and War

   • Kathleen Miller

   Pages 161-181

8. Pestilential Poesies

   • Kathleen Miller

   Pages 183-210

9. Conclusion: Recalling the Plague of 1665 in Later Literary Culture

   • Kathleen Miller

   Pages 211-217

10. Back Matter

    Pages 219-244

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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 during the outbreak. The macabre history of plague in early modern England largely ended with the Great Plague of London, and the miscellany of plague writings that responded to the epidemic forms the subject of this book.

• Disease
• Epidemic
• Great Plague of London
• Print culture
• Manuscript culture
• culture
• England
• history of literature
• British and Irish Literature

• Salem, USA

  Kathleen Miller

Kathleen Miller is Visiting Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. She completed her PhD at Trinity College Dublin, receiving a four-year PRTLI Trinity Long Room Hub Scholarship. She has worked as an adjunct lecturer at the National University of Ireland, Galway, lecturing on the body in Renaissance literature.

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