David K. Coley is Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University.
"Intriguing and oddly timely.... Like Barbara Tuchman's A Distant
Mirror (1978), Coley's well-researched book urges us to sort out
what's quiet in the chaos
amidst our own clear and present danger." --E. L. Risden,
Speculum
"This is a bold book, replete with shimmering argument leading to
daring conclusions. The book discusses plague writing in England as
a kind of forgotten history. But Coley argues that by reading
allusion and fiction attentively, irregular history becomes
visible." --Helen Barr, author of Transporting Chaucer
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