| Title: | Pandemic and politics in Mary Shelley’s The last man |
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| Authors: | ID Gadpaille, Michelle (Author) |
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| Files: |  https://essenglish.org/messenger/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/31-1-gadpaille.pdf
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Article |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | FF - Faculty of Arts
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| Abstract: | As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, readers and scholars turn to previous pandemic writing. Among the accounts of past pandemics, Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (1826) might not be the most familiar, although it stands out, not merely because of its female author and futuristic, dystopian mode. Its real distinction is that it predicts the social and political fallout of a pandemic in ways that echo the global experience of coronavirus reaction over the last few years, specifically, the ideological polarization created by anti-pandemic measures. |
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| Keywords: | English literature, plague narrative, dystopia |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 21.06.2022 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2022 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 26-34 |
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| Numbering: | Vol. 31, 1 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-89452  |
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| UDC: | 821.111.09 |
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| ISSN on article: | 2518-3567 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 201342467 |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 02.08.2024 |
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| Views: | 78 |
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| Downloads: | 6 |
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| Categories: | Misc.
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