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Abstract

Fictional representation of the pandemic in Thomas Nashe's novel “The unfortunate traveller”

Thomas Nashe (1567-1601?) is a popular Elizabethan satirist. His literary heritage is wide and various as he is the author of the numerous pamphlets, some dramas, poetic pieces and the novel “The Unfortunate Traveller”, which is considered to be his outstanding fiction. In this novel, the author described Jack Wilton's travelling around some European countries and critisized social defects and moral vices of local inhabitants.

In the context of genre system, this novel is unique thanks to the combination of several genre features, which is the sound reason this novel to have actively researched. The thing is, each genre element takes part in representing the author's satirical views. At the same time, in “... Traveller” there are some textual issues where Th. Nashe doesn't demonstrate his satire.

The most significant among them are the fragments devoted to the description of the two epidemies - the plague in Italy and “the sweating sickness” in England. Th. Nashe was the first Elizabethan man-of-letter who interpeted the urgent medical problems in fiction.

The greater amount of the novel space is devoted to the English disease. He managed to structurulize these thematic fragments into some conventional parts: symptoms, medicine, consequences, doctor's activity.

Episodes about pandemy from Th. Nashe's novel are very crucial in today's COVID-19 time as they teach to be keenly conscious of existing such diseases, to be mentally and psychologically prepared to face them unexpectedly, to overcome social and medical hardships under similar circumstances, to develop medical sphere and to get qualified doctors capable to treat effectively.

Besides their pragmatic function, these fragments have some fictional peculiarities as they are based on chronicles, but were modified in much by the author to obtain the features of narration, description, author-reader dialogue, rhetorics, so their genre can be qualified as belletristic historical stories. Thus, pandemic fragments are also helpful to illustrate Nashe's special approach to the formation of a fiction novel structure combining potentials of different jenre poetics, and to represent the writer as the masterful narrator.

Keywords: T. Nash, the novel “The Unfortunate Traveller”, pandemic, plague, “English sweating sickness”, fictionalized historical story.

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