How Long to Read Death and the Pearl Maiden

How Long Does it Take to Read Death and the Pearl Maiden?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 1 minute to read Death and the Pearl Maiden by David K Coley

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The plague first arrived in the English port of Weymouth in the summer of 1348. Two years later, half of Britain was dead, but the Black Death was just beginning. In the decades to come, England would suffer recurring outbreaks, social and cultural upheaval, and violent demographic shifts. The pandemic was, by any measure, a massive cultural trauma; however, within the vernacular English literature of the fourteenth century, the response to the disease appears muted, particularly compared to contemporaneous descriptions emerging from mainland Europe. Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England asks why one of the singular historical traumas of the later Middle Ages appears to be evoked so fleetingly in fourteenth-century Middle English poetry, a body of work as daring and socially engaged as any in English literary history. By focusing on under-recognized pestilential discourses in Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight-the four poems uniquely preserved British Library MS Cotton Nero A.x -this study resists the idea that the Black Death had only a slight impact on medieval English literature, and it strives to account for the understated shape of England's literary response to the plague and our contemporary understandings of it.

How long is Death and the Pearl Maiden?

Death and the Pearl Maiden by David K Coley is 236 pages long, and a total of 60,416 words.

This makes it 80% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Death and the Pearl Maiden Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 30 minutes to read Death and the Pearl Maiden aloud.

What Reading Level is Death and the Pearl Maiden?

Death and the Pearl Maiden is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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