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This book is an account of the history and continuation of plague as a potent metaphor since the disease ceased to be an epidemic threat in Western Europe, engaging with twentieth-century critiques of fascism, anti-Semitic rhetoric, the Oedipal legacy of psychoanalysis and its reception, and film spectatorship and the zombie genre.
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'The impact of bubonic plague did not cease with the last major European epidemic of 1720. As Cooke's illuminating study demonstrates, Western culture is haunted by this horrifying disease which continues to infect the images of novels, plays and films. Legacies of Plague is a compelling and perceptive exploration of the grim aesthetic and political afterlife of a uniquely terrifying affliction.' - Margaret Healy, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Sussex, UK
About the author
JENNIFER COOKE is Lecturer in English in the Department of English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film
Authors: Jennifer Cooke
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230235427
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-21934-2Published: 15 April 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-23542-7Published: 14 April 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 226
Topics: Film History, Theatre History, Literature, general, Literary Theory, Cultural Studies, Internal Medicine