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The dancing plague / [written and illustrated by] Gareth Brookes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brookes, Gareth, author, artist.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chorea, Epidemic--France--Strasbourg--History--16th century--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Chorea, Epidemic.
- Epidemics--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Epidemics.
- Ecstatic dance--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Ecstatic dance.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- Strasbourg (France)--Social conditions--16th century--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Strasbourg (France).
- Strasbourg (France)--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc.
- France--Strasbourg.
- Genre:
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Graphic novels.
- Historical comics.
- History.
- Nonfiction comics.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Self Made Hero, 2021.
- Summary:
- The Dancing Plague tells a true story, from 1518, when hundreds of inhabitants of Strasbourg were suddenly seized by the strange and unstoppable compulsion to dance, from the imagined perspective of Mary, one of its witnesses. Prone to mystic visions as a child, betrayed in the convent to which she flees, then abused by her loutish husband, Mary endures her life as an oppressed and ultimately scapegoated woman with courage, strength, and inspiring beauty. As difficult to interpret now (as a psychological reaction to social injustice?) as it was then (as a collective demonic possession?), the story of the "Dancing Plague" finds suitably extraordinary expression in the utterly unique mixed-media style Gareth Brookes has devised to tell it. The pioneering blend of his trademark "pyrographic" technique with sumptuously colourful (and literal) embroidery perfectly reflects, in a beautiful work of art, the enduring fragility of our human condition - from "choreomania" to coronavirus.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781910593981
- 1910593982
- OCLC:
- 1182858746
- Publisher Number:
- 99988572847
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