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02130aam a2200409 i 4500 001 6498D40026B811E994CCD44997128E48 003 SILO 005 20190202010039 008 180912t20182018vau b s001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018025833 020 $a 0813941776 020 $a 9780813941776 035 $a (OCoLC)1035364155 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d VA@ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR858 M42 M36 2018 100 1 $a Mann, Annika, $e author. 245 10 $a Reading contagion : $b the hazards of reading in the age of print / $c Annika Mann. 264 1 $a Charlottesville ; $b University of Virginia Press, $c 2018. 300 $a xi, 257 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "This books examines eighteenth-century beliefs that reading threatened to transform the world by creating new embodied collectives and fomenting large-scale epidemics"-- $c Provided by publisher. 500 $a Revision of author's thesis (doctoar)--Indiana University, 2011. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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 -- Afterword: Germs, circulating libraries and the great book scare. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Medicine in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and medicine $z Great Britain $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Communicable diseases in literature. 650 0 $a Epidemics in literature. 650 0 $a Diseases in literature. 650 0 $a Books and reading $x History $z Great Britain $x History $y 18th century. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017014803.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230405012017.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6498D40026B811E994CCD44997128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search