LEADER 04263nam 22007095 450 001 9911047662903321 005 20251119120427.0 010 $a9783031927935 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-92793-5 035 $a(CKB)43368476200041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32421534 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32421534 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-92793-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)9943368476200041 100 $a20251119d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Fifth Plague $eCattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities /$fby Lucinda Cole 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (330 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Animals and Literature,$x2634-6346 311 08$a9783031927928 327 $aChapter 1-Cattle, Disease, and the Stories We Tell.-Chapter 2- Dire Plague Creeping: Vermin, De Mortibus Boum, and Christian Disease Ecologies -- Chapter 3-Zoonotic Shakespeare: Merchants and Livestock in Venice -- Chapter 4-Journals of the Plague Years: Flesh Markets and Easterly Winds.-Chapter 5-Bovine Elegies and Bioinsecurities, 1740-1790 -- Chapter 6-Steppe Disease and Cholera During Britain?s Last Great Outbreak. 330 $aThis book examines murrain, or mass mortalities of cattle, in ways that bridge the gap between animal studies and the health humanities. Beginning with early modern European disease ecologies but informed by contemporary epidemiological and ecological concerns, The Fifth Plague offers a new historical approach to literary plague studies, one taking seriously real and imagined relationships between human outbreaks, such as bubonic plague and cholera, and a series of even more mysterious animal diseases that killed in equally great numbers. Chapters include careful readings of literary texts by, among others, William Shakespeare, John Dryden, Daniel Defoe, and Sophie Amelia Prosser. Uniting these readings is a shared history of murrains recorded in Virgil, but also the powerful legacy of the Ten Plagues of Egypt narrative, in which human and non-human afflictions are materially and theologically bound. ?Great mortalities? of cattle, Cole argues, brought with them feelings of individual and collective vulnerability. As scientists and humanists face increasingly politicized information networks, this book calls for an exploration of the past, present, and future of humanity?s decidedly interdependent and zoonotic existence. Lucinda Cole is Associate Professor in the Department of English at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. She previously published Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740 (2016). 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Animals and Literature,$x2634-6346 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aVeterinary medicine 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x17th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x18th century 606 $aEuropean literature$xRenaissance, 1450-1600 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x19th century 606 $aEuropean Literature 606 $aVeterinary Science 606 $aSeventeenth-Century Literature 606 $aEighteenth-Century Literature 606 $aEarly Modern and Renaissance Literature 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aVeterinary medicine. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x17th century. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x18th century. 615 0$aEuropean literature$xRenaissance, 1450-1600. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x19th century. 615 14$aEuropean Literature. 615 24$aVeterinary Science. 615 24$aSeventeenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aEighteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aEarly Modern and Renaissance Literature. 615 24$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 676 $a636.20896 700 $aCole$b Lucinda$0944903 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911047662903321 996 $aThe Fifth Plague$94476324 997 $aUNINA