Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature
Byron Lee Grigsby
Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2003
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By examining different readings of specific illnesses, this study shows how the social construction of epidemic diseases formed a kind of narrative wherein man attempts to take the control of the disease out of God's hands by connecting epidemic diseases to the sins of carnality.
- ISBN-13
- 9780415968225
- ISBN-10
- 0415968224
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Year
- 2003
- Publication date
- 2003-12-01
- Pages
- 220
- Dimensions
- 229x152x
- Weight
- 570