During the seventeenth century, England was beset by three epidemics of the bubonic plague, each outbreak claiming between a quarter and a third of the populati

This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative repr

This book is about the literary culture that emerged during and in the aftermath of the Great Plague of London (1665). Textual transmission impacted upon and si

Although we are currently bombarded with numerous health scares--AIDS, West Nile virus, avian flu, and the recent swine flu, just to name a few that now fill ou

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.