McCallam, D. orcid.org/0009-0004-1705-2912 (2025) Humanimals: a socio‐ecological reading of the Marseille plague of 1720. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. ISSN 1754-0194
Abstract
The aim of this article is to return to a small number of historically significant first-person testimonies of the Marseille epidemic of 1720 in order to analyse in detail their construction and depiction of human exceptionality as a form of life in a time of plague. We are specifically interested in how this sense of early modern human selfhood is compromised and problematized by its various interactions with other animals in the plague-infested city and, by extension, how plague reconfigures the dynamic forms of socio-ecological agency in eighteenth-century Marseille.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords: | animals; environment; France; Marseille; medical; plague; self |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of Languages and Cultures (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 19 May 2025 11:45 |
Last Modified: | 19 May 2025 11:45 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1754-0208.12994 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:226813 |