Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature: The Hope for Planetary Salvation

by William Franke

This book rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Roman (Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid), through the Middle Ages (Boccaccio) and Modernity (Defoe, Manzoni, Artaud, Camus) as a basis for contemplating the significance of the recent Covid-19 pandemic. It concerns how we are to confront future pandemics and other inextricably related crises, notably those of an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032895853
• ISBN13: 9781032895857
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 136 Pages