Writing Plague Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19.

Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Translations
Praise for Writing Plague
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19
	The Black Death
	Metaphor and Metonymy
	Language and Violence
	Other Responses to Pandemic
Chapter 2: The Pardoner, the Prioress, and the Pandemic: Jews and Other Scapegoats in Fourteenth-Century European Culture
	The Anti-Judaic Background to the Black Death
	The Pardoner’s Tale
	Plague and the Medieval Drama
	Old Women and Prostitutes
	The Prioress’s Tale
	The Passion of the Jews According to John the Stocky Peasant
	From Violent Narratives to Physical Violence
Chapter 3: Death and the Maiden: Mourning and Melancholy in Pearl and the Late Medieval European Elegy
	Pearl
	The Poet and the Patron: Pearl and Machaut’s Remede de Fortune
	Melancholy and Mourning
	The Clerk and the Lover
	The Lady as Teacher: The Pearl Maiden and St Catherine
Chapter 4: The Plague’s the Thing: Pandemic and Religious Politics in Shakespeare’s Drama
	The Bubonic Plague in Shakespeare’s England
	Hamlet (ca. 1600)
	King Lear (1605) and Macbeth (1606)
	The Winter’s Tale (ca. 1610)
Chapter 5: The Brown Plague and the White Sickness: Fascism and the Crisis of Democracy in Twentieth-Century Plague Fiction and Film
	Death in Venice (1911)
	Nosferatu (1922)
	Who Goes There? (1938) and the Modern Horror Film
	Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939)
	Čapek’s The White Sickness (1937)
	“Czechoslovakia Is a Country, Not a Contagious Disease”
	Camus’ The Plague (1947)
	After the Fall: French Guilt in the Postwar Era
	Paris and Prague
Chapter 6: Conclusion
	Language and Violence in the Era of COVID-19
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index