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The plague / editor, Robert C. Evans.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Evans, Robert C., 1955- editor.
Series:
Critical insights
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Plague in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. Peste.
Camus, Albert.
Algeria--In literature.
Algeria.
Physical Description:
xxxiv, 265 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, Inc., [2023]
Contents:
About This Volume / Robert C. Evans
Camus and Plague Literature / Rebecca Totaro
Biography of Albert Camus / Robert C. Evans
Critical Contexts. Benefitting from Plague in Camus’s The Plague / Maciej Kałuża
The Earliest American Newspaper Reviews of Albert Camus’s The Plague / Robert C. Evans
From Thucydides to Simone Weil: Friendship and Heroism in Albert Camus’s The Plague
Edwin Wong
“A Grim-Jawed Angel of Mercy” or “There’s No Question of Heroism in All This”? Crisis and Response in Albert Camus’s The Plague and Robert A. Heinlein’s “Sky Lift” / Rafeeq O. McGiveron
Critical Readings. Life Can Be the Plague: Camus’s Reification
Susan Howard Moss
Camus’s The Plague and the Health Humanities / Robert C. Evans
States of Plague, by Kaplan and Marris: An Overview and Review / Robert C. Evans
“Is a Priest Justified in Consulting a Doctor?” Reflections on the Case of Paneloux and Rieux in The Plague / Mark Orme
The Women in The Plague / Gene Fendt
The Absent Wife: An Embarrassing Oversight or Fundamental Other in The Plague? / Meaghan Emery
Albert Camus’s Augury of Post-Truth Necropolitics: Reading The Plague in the Twenty-first Century / Harry Fairless and James Gourley
“There are more things to admire in men than to despise”: The Optimistic Satire of The Plague by Albert Camus / Matthew M. Thiele
Language and the “Duty of memory” in The Plague / Peter Dunwoodie
Rereading Camus’s The Plague with Its Artistry in Mind / Robert C. Evans
Resources
Chronology of Albert Camus’s Life
Works by Albert Camus
Bibliography
About the Editor
Contributors
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-252) and index.
ISBN:
163700432X
9781637004326
OCLC:
1345513112
Publisher Number:
99993481250

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