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CONGRATULATIONS to @amrasharma15.bsky.social who is our #BSECS-Bodleian Visiting Fellow for 2026 🎉 Amrapali will use the fellowship to develop her project 'Daniel Defoe and Plague Discourse in the Long Eighteenth Century', examining how epidemic disease was understood in #18thC Britain

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@bsecs.bsky.social

27 Apr

The project explores how medical, religious, and statistical forms of knowledge intersect in literary narratives, and argues that storytelling itself played a crucial role in making sense of epidemic crisis and uncertainty #skystorians #18thC 🗃️