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

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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