... about the nature o f the body in early modern England, a period in which outbreaks o f bubonic plague were common. To what extent did Francis Bacon conceive of this orange-oath as utopian and part o f his larger prescription for readers?The answer has something to do w ith Bacon's larger objec­ tives...

... in posi­ tions of public trust. The alarm was directed n o t specifically at the faeries, however, b u t at Puck s coincident actions. Epidemic inform ed this reaction. In Elizabeth s reign, the public theaters were considered such breeding grounds for con­ tagious disease that the specter of the plague...

... Plague in English Literature from More to M ilton (Duquesne University Press, 2005), an examination of the hope born in plague-time and displayed in lit­ erary form. A participant in the Folger Institute Year-Long Colloquium "Vernacular Health and Healing" directed by Mary E. Fisseli,Totaro has held...

... and dry exhalations, like the comet that was believed to foretell the literal wars, the plagues that were equally the sym ptom s of radical, ecological change, and the hot and volatile emissions from human bodies.16 The key to health for all early modern bodies alike was balance, particularly w ith...

... Infections and Deaths.” 1 Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year , 16 . 2 World Health Organization, “Global Health Estimates.” 3 Stevensen and Viscusi, “Lives vs. the Economy.” 4 Ne’eman, “I Will Not Apologize for My Needs.” 5 Disability Rights Education and Defense...

... in Paradise: the Bubonic Plague in English Literature from More to M ilton (2005), she is editor of The Plague in Print: Essential Elizabethan Sources, 15581603 (2010), co-editor of Representing the Plague in Early Modern England (2011), and editor of The Plague Epic in Early Modern England: Heroic Measures...

... Hudibras provided such discourse necessary for justifying a new political order. For the Royalists in power, however, the workings of Provi­ dence had to be interpreted as supportive of their cause a difficult task in the face of ensuing plague and fire. Nowhere is this strategy more obvious, explains...

... and simulation within the sphere of these pandemics. Pandemic’s 2013 rule book begins: “Do you have what it takes to save humanity? . . . You must work together, using individual strengths, to succeed. The clock is ticking as outbreaks and epidemics fuel the spreading plagues. Can you find all four cures in time...

... Plague that Ferdinando, Lord Strange, was probably responsible for the Prescott playhouse, built in 1593, and that Strange s and Derby s m en may have played there during the plague years December 2005 197 1593-94. This is the most usefully informative essay of the collec­ tion. Unlike its distinctly...

... humanities analyses that consider the literary histories of medicine, see Silva, Miraculous Plagues ; Wisecup, Medical Encounters ; Otis, Membranes ; Ostherr, Cinematic Prophylaxis ; Davis, Bodily and Narrative Forms ; and Browner, Profound Science and Elegant Literature . 15 Wilson...

... be acknowledged is that the pandemic is more than a medical concept. It also refers to ideological and political plagues that emerged as a result of the irresponsible response of the United States and other countries such as Brazil, the United Kingdom, and India to the crisis. Marked by inept leadership rooted...

... King’s The Stand (1978), Dean Koontz’s The Eyes of Darkness (1981), and Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven (2014), to name just a few. There have, of course, always been pandemic narratives that fell outside these genres—Daniel Defoe’s historical novel A Journal of the Plague Year (1722...

... t specifically at the faeries, however, b u t at Puck s coincident actions. Epidemic inform ed this reaction. In Elizabeth s reign, the public theaters were considered such breeding grounds for con­ tagious disease that the specter of the plague allowed the city of L ondon to deprive Burbage o f...

... discussion of early m odern plague cures that, like favorite palliatives fo r the comm on cold today, involved chickens and oranges (applied, however, externally as well as internally) demonstrates the presence of those cures in Francis Bacon's utopian narrative The N ew Atlantis. W hile rela­ tively...

..., as Leif Sorensen notes, “assimilation into the US is not a seamless fit.” 39 Caught between his desire to resist and to assimilate, the adult George G. Gómez remains plagued by the “eternal conflict” of dual subjectivity that plagued his childhood self. 40 Rather than a celebrated “leader of his...

..., writing, and teaching to the classical understanding of plagues as messages from the gods that something was out of order in the social world. The pandemic has highlighted many aspects of the social world in the United States (and elsewhere) that are out of order, including structural racism...

... Marlowe, the m ost accomplished playw right in the city, has written a new play, The Massacre at Paris, which his company, the Lord Adm iral's Men, is understandably eager to read and rehearse. That's because the usually lucrative theater season has been post­ poned since June. The bubonic plague has been...

... in this world The wandering light of day had never seen! Of you, whom I have plagued, whom I have made With bloody hand a guest of mouldy tomb; Of you, whom I destroyed; of you, dear lord, Whom I of empire, honour, life, have spoiled. O hurtful woman! And can I yet live, Yet longer live in this ghost-haunted...

... example of “an empty signifier,” it points to the gaps and fissures that plagued the relationship among Spanish, Indian, Mexican, and Anglo/white racial categories in the late nineteenth-century borderlands, underscoring how racial categories are largely empty signifiers that must be litigated into fixity...

... In fictional form, Rubenstein sees this traditional view symbolized by Father Paneloux in Albert Camus s La peste {The Plague), the Jesuit priest who discussed the disease spreading over the city of O ran in terms of divine retribu­ tion. Rubenstein incisively notes: Father Paneloux is capable of maintaining...