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Author Mann, Annika, author.

Title Reading contagion : the hazards of reading in the age of print / Annika Mann.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 257 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Medicine in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Literature and medicine.
Great Britain.
History.
Communicable diseases in literature.
Communicable diseases in literature.
Epidemics in literature.
Epidemics in literature.
Diseases in literature.
Diseases in literature.
Books and reading -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Books and reading -- Social aspects.
Books and reading.
Books and reading -- Health aspects.
Contagion (Social psychology)
Contagion (Social psychology)
Communicable diseases.
Communicable diseases.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: 0813941776 9780813941776 (OCoLC)1035364155
ISBN 9780813941783 (electronic book)
0813941784 (electronic book)
9780813941776 (hardcover)
0813941776 (hardcover)

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