Plague Writing in Early Modern England Review

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Plague Writing in Early Modern England ReviewErnest B.Gilman tells us that "Plague Writing in Early Modern England" was "written in the shadow of the coming plague." Aids, Ebola, new and stubbornly resistant forms of tuberculosis and the ever-evolving flu face us with the same monstrous imponderables that faced the Plague Writers of seventeenth centurey England. As they vainly tried to reconcile the deaths of thousands with their faith in a just God, so must we "face the coming plague" as our medical science seems powerless before the onslaught of relentless, if mindless, microbial evolution.
Gilman presents a masterful array of material from the sermons and pamphlets that burst from pulpit and press with each outburst of the plague. He then probes the powerful emotions masked beneath the classically ordered lines of the epigram Ben Jonson composed for his son, dead of plague at age seven. Preacher and poet John Donne brings his great skills to articulate a meaning in the terrifying handiwork of his Creator. Daniel Defoe's "Journal of the Plague Year" and Samuel Pepys' diary give us remarkably sharply contrasting emotional responses to the plague.
For its scholarship, insights and emotional power, Gilman has written a brilliant work that must be read
Edwin J. Heck, Ph. D.Plague Writing in Early Modern England Overview

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