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Bills of Mortality: Disease and Destiny in Plague Literature from Early Modern to Postmodern Times - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
Patrick Reilly
Bills of Mortality: Disease and Destiny in Plague Literature from Early Modern to Postmodern Times explores the dynamic between the fact of plague and the constructs of destiny deadly disease generates in literary texts ranging from Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year to Tony Kushner's Angels in America.
201 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 13, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9781433124228 |
| Publishers | Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
| Pages | 201 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 231 × 19 mm · 440 g |
| Language | English |
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