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

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

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mann, Annika (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Subjects:
1700-1799
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Medicine in literature.
Literature and medicine > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Communicable diseases in literature.
Epidemics in literature.
Diseases in literature.
Books and reading > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Books and reading > Health aspects.
Contagion (Social psychology)
Communicable diseases.
Medicine in Literature
Communicable Diseases
Roman anglais > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Littérature et médecine > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Maladies infectieuses dans la littérature.
Maladies dans la littérature.
Livres et lecture > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Contagion sociale.
Maladies infectieuses.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
MEDICAL > Infectious Diseases.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature and medicine.
English fiction.
Books and reading > Social aspects.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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