This book is an account of the history and continuation of plague as a potent metaphor since the disease ceased to be an epidemic threat in Western Europe, engaging with twentieth-century critiques of fascism, anti-Semitic rhetoric, the Oedipal legacy of psychoanalysis and its reception, and film spectatorship and the zombie genre.

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JENNIFER COOKE is Lecturer in English in the Department of English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK.

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Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: 'I Ain't Dead' Writing Plague: Defoe and Camus The Politics of Plague Theatre: Artaud, ?apek and Camus Oedipus the Pharmakos and the Psychoanalytic Plague Dreaming Plague and Plaguing Dreams: The Teachings of Psychoanalysis Plague, Jews and Fascist Anti-Semites: 'The Great Incurable Malady' Screening Plague Images / Plaguing Screen Images: von Trier's Epidemic and Hypnosis Plague, Zombies and the Hypnotic Relation: Romero and After Bibliography Index