Literary Culture of Plague in Early Modern England

Kathleen Miller is Visiting Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. She completed her PhD at Trinity College Dublin, receiving a four-year PRTLI Trinity Long Room Hub Scholarship. She has worked as an adjunct lecturer at the National University of Ireland, Galway, lecturing on the body in Renaissance literature.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Continuities in Plague Writing.- 3. Medical Debates on Plague.- 4. Plague and Nonconformity.- 5. Katharine Austen's Reckoning with Plague in Book M.- 6. Pestilence and War.- 7. Pestilential Poesies.- 8. Conclusion: Recalling the Plague of 1665 in Later Literary Culture.- Bibliography.- Index.-