Textually Transmitted Diseases: Narrative Contact Tracing in Depictions of Ancient Troy.
- Author / Editor
- Shupe, Deirdra M.
Textually Transmitted Diseases: Narrative Contact Tracing in Depictions of Ancient Troy.
- Published
- Ph.D. dissertation (Florida State University, 2021), Dissertation Abstracts International A 82.12(E). Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (accessed February 2, 2025).
- Description
- Argues that the "use of ill bodies in storytelling acts as a virus" so that, when familiar narratives are retold, "the image of ailing bodies will spread to future versions," often mutating. Links lovesickness in TC to leprosy in Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid" and to venereal syphilis in Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion