Suffering in paradise : the bubonic plague in English literature from More to Milton / Rebecca Totaro.

Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, [2005], ©2005.

xiv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index.

Suffering in plague-time -- The best practices for change -- Thomas More's pestilence in parentheses -- Breath infect breath : plague in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens -- What a great loss in hope? : Jonson's the Alchemist -- Plague in the foundation : building toward the New Atlantis -- Fly from that pestilent destruction : Margaret Cavendish's prescriptions -- Fables and fancies : the style of hope in Bacon and Cavendish -- The rectification of air and the pursuit of paradise.