Reading contagion : the hazards of reading in the age of print / Annika Mann.
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TextPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018Description: 1 online resource (xi, 257 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780813941783
- 0813941784
- 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
- Medicine in literature
- Literature and medicine
- Epidemics in literature
- English fiction
- Diseases in literature
- Communicable diseases in literature
- Books and reading -- Social aspects
- Communicable diseases
- Contagion (Social psychology)
- Great Britain
- 1700-1799
- 823/.5093561 23
- 028.9 23
- PR858.M42 M36 2018
- Z1003
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 14, 2018).
"This books examines eighteenth-century beliefs that reading threatened to transform the world by creating new embodied collectives and fomenting large-scale epidemics"-- Provided by publisher
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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