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
Main Author: Mann, Annika (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
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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