| Description |
1 online resource (1 online resource). |
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text file |
| Series |
Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature
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Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Introduction; 'Social Contagionism': Psychology, Criminology and Sociology in the Slipstream of Infection; The Overlap of Discourses of Contagion: Economic, Sexual, and Psychological; Exoticism, Bacteriology and the Staging of the Dangerous; Rousing Emotions in the Description of Contagious Diseases in Modernism; Anarchist and Aphrodite: On the Literary History of Germs; " ... an entirely new form of bacteria for them": Contagionism and its Consequences in Laßwitz and Wells; Genius and Degenerate? Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus and a Medical Discourse on Syphilis. |
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Aweysha: Spiritual Epidemics and Psychic Contagion in the Works of Gustav MeyrinkLiving with Rats and Mosquitoes: Different Paradigms of Cohabitation with Parasites in a German Narrative of Contagion around 1930; Infectious Diseases in Max Frisch; Afterword; Notes on Contributors; Index of Names and Works. |
| Summary |
Understanding how 'contagion' and 'infection' have become powerful metaphors requires a historical reconstruction of this semantic field in the late 19th and early 20th century, when these concepts acquired a scientific meaning. The volume offers an interdisciplinary approach to the cultural history of contagionism between medical bacteriology, the social sciences and literary adaptations. The symbolic implications of 'contagion' and high-profile contagious diseases are addressed, which mark the boundaries between sick and healthy, familiar and alien, morally pure and impure. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Communicable diseases in literature.
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Communicable diseases in literature. |
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Literature and medicine.
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Literature and medicine. |
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Contagion (Social psychology)
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Contagion (Social psychology) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781306205436 |
| ISBN |
3110306115 (electronic book) |
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9783110306118 (electronic book) |
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3110305720 |
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9783110305722 |
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3110306123 |
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9783110306125 |
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9781306205436 |
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1306205433 |
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