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Book/Printed Material Death and the Pearl maiden : plague, poetry, England

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Title

  • Death and the Pearl maiden : plague, poetry, England

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

  • Coley, David K., author

Created / Published

  • Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2019]
  • ©2019

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.

Headings

  • -  Pearl (Middle English poem)--Criticism, Textual
  • -  English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism
  • -  Plague in literature
  • -  Plague--England--London

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (xi, 220 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PR2111

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021758459

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  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Coley, David K., Author. Death and the Pearl maiden: plague, poetry, England. [Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, ©, 2019] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021758459/.

APA citation style:

Coley, D. K. (2019) Death and the Pearl maiden: plague, poetry, England. [Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, ©] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021758459/.

MLA citation style:

Coley, David K., Author. Death and the Pearl maiden: plague, poetry, England. [Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, ©, 2019] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021758459/>.