Vita Nova.
This essay centers on the author’s experience of receiving a diagnosis of widely metastasized lung cancer and reflects on themes of interruption, continuity, and mortality through the lens of eighteenth-century literature, particularly Henry Fielding’s novel *The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling*....
| Publicado en: | Ploughshares Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 10 - 27 |
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Summer2026
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