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Author:

Mann, Annika, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xi, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

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--History--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Notes:

Revision of author's thesis (doctoar)--Indiana University, 2011. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Afterword: Germs, circulating libraries and the great book scare.

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.

ISBN:

0813941776
9780813941776

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1035364155

LCCN:

2018025833

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)