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1 online resource |
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Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature |
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Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Communicable diseases in literature.
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Literature and medicine
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Contagion (Social psychology)
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Communicable diseases in literature
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Contagion (Social psychology)
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Literature and medicine
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3110306115 |
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9783110306118 |
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