This book is about the literary culture that emerged during and in the aftermath of the Great Plague of London (1665). Textual transmission impacted upon and si

This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative repr

In The Plague in Print, Rebecca Totaro takes the reader into the world of plague-riddled Elizabethan England, documenting the development of distinct subgenres

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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