The Living Will : A Study of Tennyson and Nineteenth-century Subjectivism

This monograph represents an expansion and deepening of previous works by Ole J. Benedictow - the author of highly esteemed monographs and articles on the history of plague epidemics and historical demography. In the form of a collection of articles, the author presents an in-depth monographic study on the history of plague epidemics in Scandinavian countries and on controversies of the microbiological and epidemiological fundamentals of plague epidemics. I. The Subjective Poet II. The Vision of Futility, 1809-1832 III. Silence and Revision, 1833-1842 IV. In Memoriam: The Way of the Will V. The Self as King VI. Lucretius and Despair VII. Conclusion Appendix A