Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence

Disease, pestilence and contagion have been an integral component of human lives and stories. This book explores the articulations and representations of the vulnerability of life or the trauma of death in literature about epidemics both from India and around the world.

This book critically engages with stories and narratives that have dealt with pandemics or epidemics in the past and in contempora...