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How is AIDS treated in the contemporary plays of Larry Kramer and William
Hoffman? How important is the Black Death to a reader of Boccaccio's
"Decameron"? How have the historical and current outbreaks of contagious
disease affected the creation of literature, and how has this literature in
turn shaped our response to disease? This work addresses these and other
significant questions raised by literary works whose main themes revolve around
contagious, epidemic disease and its social and psychological consequences. These studies are concerned with the questions raised by literary works
whose main themes revolve around contagious, epidemic disease and its social
and psychological consequences.
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