Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England

Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England
ISBN-10
0814213901
ISBN-13
9780814213902
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
220
Language
English
Published
2019
Publisher
Interventions: New Studies Med
Author
David K. Coley

Description

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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