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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"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal:	Mann, Annika (Autor)
Formato:	Electrónico eBook
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Colección:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:	Contagion (Social psychology) Communicable diseases. Books and reading > Social aspects. Communicable diseases in literature. Diseases in literature. English fiction. Epidemics in literature. Literature and medicine. Medicine in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. MEDICAL > Infectious Diseases. LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading. Maladies infectieuses. Contagion sociale. Livres et lecture > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle. Maladies dans la litterature. Maladies infectieuses dans la litterature. Litterature et medecine > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle. Medecine dans la litterature. Roman anglais > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique. Communicable Diseases Medicine in Literature Books and reading > Health aspects. Books and reading > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Literature and medicine > Great Britain > History > 18th century. English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Electronic books.
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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.