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Reading contagion : the hazards of reading in the age of print / Annika Mann.
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Ebscohost Ebooks University Press Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mann, Annika, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books and reading--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Diseases in literature.
- Epidemics in literature.
- Communicable diseases in literature.
- Literature and medicine--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Medicine in literature.
- English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (26 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Revision of author's thesis (doctoar)--Indiana University, 2011.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813941783
- 0813941784
- OCLC:
- 1057550200
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