States of Plague : Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic /

States of Plague examines Albert Camus's novel The Plague as a palimpsest of our own pandemic life, its account of the psychology and politics of quarantine uncannily relevant to our time. One of the most discussed books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert Camus's classic novel The Plague has b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Kaplan, Alice (Autor), Marris, Laura (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2022]
Temas:
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-.
Epidemics in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
global health crisis, epidemic, city, algeria, camus, separation, isolation, uncertainty, terror, fear, literary touchstone, classic, literature, the plague, covid-19, coronavirus, pandemic, nonfiction, history, culture, landscape, language, illness, recovery, care, community, readers, reception, immunity, politics, body politic, occupied paris, war.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 We, Dr. Rieux
  • 2 Rat Eurydice
  • 3 Les séparés
  • 4 On Restraint
  • 5 Fieldwork
  • 6 Half- Life
  • 7 Atmospheric Changes
  • 8 Toxic City
  • 9 The Essay Garden
  • 10 The Endless Sentence
  • 11 Anthologies of Insignificance
  • 12 The Ends of Wars and Plagues Are Messy
  • 13 Blood Memory
  • Sources
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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