Fourteen essays respond to the theme of plague from different disciplinary perspectives.Encountering the Plague explores ways in which humanities research can play a meaningful role in key social and political debates and provides compelling examples of how the past can inform our understanding of the presentContributors focus on the effects of COVID-19 on everyday life, drawing also on insights from different historical experiences of plague as a way of exploring human responses to epidemics, past and present.
Each chapter opens with a different illustration that serves as a source for subsequent discussion, enabling readers to make connections between everyday objects, experiences, and broader critical debates about plague and its impact on humanityThought-provoking commentaries stem from a variety of humanities disciplines including archaeology, electronic literature, history, linguistics, media and cultural studies, and musicology.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
258 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Intellect |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2024-11-29 |
| ISBN |
9781789389876 |
