What The Literature Of Plague Tells Us
Jill Lepore: "The literature of contagion is vile. A plague is like a lobotomy. It cuts away the higher realms, the loftiest capacities of humanity, and leaves only the animal. "Farewell to the giant powers of man," Mary Shelley wrote in "The Last Man," in 1826, after a disease has ravaged the world. "Farewell to […]