Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature: The Hope for Planetary Salvation

by William Franke

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This book rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Roman (Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid), through the Middle Ages (Boccaccio) and Modernity (Defoe, Manzoni, Artaud, Camus) as a basis for contemplating the significance of the recent Covid-19 pandemic. It concerns how we are to confront future pandemics and other inextricably related crises, notably those of an...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1032895853

ISBN13:9781032895857

Release Date:January 2025

Publisher:Routledge

Length:136 Pages

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