{"product_id":"9783031927928","title":"Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePalgrave Studies in Animals and Literature: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eCole, Lucinda\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines murrain, or mass mortalities of cattle, in ways that bridge the gap between animal studies and the health humanities. \u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eBeginning with early modern European disease ecologies but\u003c\/span\u003e informed by contemporary epidemiological and ecological concerns, \u003cem\u003e\u003cem data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eThe Fifth Plague\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e offers a new historical approach to literary plague studies, one taking seriously real and imagined relationships between human outbreaks, such as bubonic plague and cholera, and a series of even more mysterious animal diseases that killed in equally great numbers. Chapters include careful readings of literary texts by, among others, William Shakespeare, John Dryden, Daniel Defoe, and Sophie Amelia \u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eProsser.\u003c\/span\u003e. Uniting these readings is a shared history of murrains recorded in Virgil, but also the powerful legacy of the Ten Plagues of Egypt narrative, in which human and non-human afflictions are materially and theologically bound. “Great mortalities” of cattle, Cole argues, brought with them feelings of individual and collective vulnerability. As scientists and humanists face increasingly politicized information networks, this book calls for an exploration of the past, present, and future of humanity’s decidedly interdependent and zoonotic existence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2025-11-19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783031927928\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-031-92793-5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 260\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44341071577228,"sku":"9783031927928","price":116.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031927928.jpg?v=1773283953","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783031927928","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}