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Reading contagion : the hazards of reading in the age of print /

"This books examines eighteenth-century beliefs that reading threatened to transform the world by creating new embodied collectives and fomenting large-scale epidemics"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mann, Annika (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: theorizing reading in the age of print
  • Reading contagion in eighteenth-century medicine
  • Infection: inspiring Alexander Pope's Dunciad
  • Inoculation: Tobias Smollett and remediation
  • Propagation: regeneration and William Blake's "Visible form"
  • Extinction: sanitation and the end of plague in Mary Shelley's The last man.