Death and the Pearl maiden : : plague, poetry, England / / David K. Coley.
Shows how English responses to the Black Death were hidden in plain sight-as seen in the Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight poems.
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Superior document: | Interventions: new studies in medieval culture |
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Place / Publishing House: | Columbus : : The Ohio State University Press,, [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (233 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Trauma, witness, and representation in Cleanness
- Pearl and the language of plague
- Flight and enclosure in Patience
- Sex, death, and social change in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Conclusion: A pestilence whispered.