TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mann,Annika
TI  - Reading contagion: the hazards of reading in the age of print 
SN  - 9780813941783
AV  - PR858.M42 M36 2018
U1  - 823/.5093561 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 18th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Medicine in literature
KW  - Literature and medicine
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Communicable diseases in literature
KW  - Epidemics in literature
KW  - Diseases in literature
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Health aspects
KW  - Contagion (Social psychology)
KW  - Communicable diseases
KW  - Medicine in Literature
KW  - Communicable Diseases
KW  - Roman anglais
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Médecine dans la littérature
KW  - Littérature et médecine
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Maladies infectieuses dans la littérature
KW  - Maladies dans la littérature
KW  - Livres et lecture
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Contagion sociale
KW  - Maladies infectieuses
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Books & Reading
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Infectious Diseases
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "This books examines eighteenth-century beliefs that reading threatened to transform the world by creating new embodied collectives and fomenting large-scale epidemics"--
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