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Quarantines: Framing Romantic Narratives of Extinction and Epidemic Experience

by Florian Klaeger (Author)
18 Pages
Open Access
Journal: literatur für leser:innen Volume 46 Issue 1 Publication Year 2023 pp. 43 - 60

Summary

The essay situates Romantic representations of epidemics in the context of ‘last man narratives’ in vogue around 1800. It focuses on their shared use of ‘framings’ of the sort familiar from the works of Caspar David Friedrich, the

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Pages
18
DOI
10.3726/lfl.2023.01.04
Open Access
CC-BY
Keywords
Rückenfigur narrative frames cholera Shelley Heine

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Florian Klaeger (Author)

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Title: Quarantines: Framing Romantic Narratives of Extinction and Epidemic Experience