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A Study of Disease Awareness and National Anxiety in British Literature in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Tao Jiusheng

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In the historical context of the high frequency of the Black Death and the epidemics of syphilis, smallpox, malaria and typhoid in the 16th and 17th centuries, this book adopts an interdisciplinary perspective of literature and medicine, theology, politics, geography, etc., Focusing on the study of disease narratives in more than 20 works of important early modern British writers such as Shakespeare, Jonson, Milton, Donne, More, Burton, Dekker, Kidd, and Middleton.