Encountering the Plague is an edited collection of fourteen articles that examine the effects of COVID-19 on everyday life and draw on historical experiences of plague to explore human responses to epidemics. It offers insights from various humanities disciplines and includes thought-provoking commentaries.

Format: Hardback
Length: 258 pages
Publication date: 29 November 2024
Publisher: Intellect

Encountering the Plague: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Plague in the Modern World is a thought-provoking edited collection that brings together fourteen newly commissioned articles, each of which responds to the theme of plague from different disciplinary perspectives. Contributors 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 humanity. Thought-provoking commentaries stem from a variety of humanities disciplines, including archaeology, electronic literature, history, linguistics, media and cultural studies, and musicology. 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 present.

Encountering the Plague: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Plague in the Modern World

Encountering the Plague: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Plague in the Modern World is a thought-provoking edited collection that brings together fourteen newly commissioned articles, each of which responds to the theme of plague from different disciplinary perspectives. Contributors 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 humanity. Thought-provoking commentaries stem from a variety of humanities disciplines, including archaeology, electronic literature, history, linguistics, media and cultural studies, and musicology. 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 present.

Dimension: 244 x 170 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781789389869