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Course Description

"Every plague novel is a parable," Harvard historian Jill Lepore recently remarked. If so, what lessons are to be learned? Plagues, from Biblical times to the present day, have received a great deal of literary attention because they offer models of people in crisis that can help us better understand our own individual predicaments and perhaps human nature in general. Reading literary constructions of plagues also invites us to consider the political and personal obligations to one's society, one's family, and one's self; the desire to seek out scapegoats and establish heroes; and the underlying values and inequities within society.

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