Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund

UID:

Format: VI, 242 S. : , Ill.

ISBN: 978-3-11-030572-2

Series Statement: Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft 38

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-11-030611-8

Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

Keywords: Infektionskrankheit ; Infektion ; Literatur ; Biografie ; Konferenzschrift

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: Inhaltstext

Author information: Rütten, Thomas 1978-

UID:

Format: 1 Online-Ressource.

ISBN: 978-3-11-030611-8 , 978-3-11-030572-2

Series Statement: Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft 38

Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

Keywords: Infektionskrankheit ; Infektion ; Literatur ; Biografie ; Konferenzschrift

DOI: 10.1515/9783110306118

URL: Volltext

URL: Volltext

URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)

URL: lizenzpflichtig

URL: Cover

URL: Cover

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110306118

Author information: King, Martina

UID:

Format: 1 online resource (248 p.)

ISBN: 3-11-030611-5

Series Statement: Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft : Komparatistische Studien = Spectrum literature : comparative studies, Band 38

Content: The idea of contagious transmission, either by material particles or by infectious ideas, has played a powerful role in the development of the Western World since antiquity. Yet it acquired quite a precise signature during the process of scientific and cultural differentiation in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This volume explores the significance and cultural functions of contagionism in this period, from notions of infectious homosexuality and the concept of social contagion to the political implications of bacteriological fieldwork. The history of the concept 'microbe' in aesthetic modernism is adressed as well as bacteriological metaphors in American literary historiography. Within this broad framework, contagionism as a literary narrative is approached in more focussed contributions: from its emotional impact in literary modernism to the idea of physical or psychic contagion in authors such as H.G. Wells, Kurt Lasswitz, Gustav Meyrinck, Ernst Weiss, Thomas Mann and Max Frisch. This twofold approach of general topics and individual literary case studies produces a deeper understanding of the symbolic implications of contagionism marking the boundaries between sick and healthy, familiar and alien, morally pure and impure.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , 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 / , Aweysha: Spiritual Epidemics and Psychic Contagion in the Works of Gustav Meyrink / , Living 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 , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 3-11-030572-0

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-306-20543-3

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

DOI: 10.1515/9783110306118

URL: Click to View

UID:

Format: VI, 242 Seiten , Ill. , 24 cm

ISBN: 9783110305722 , 3110305720

Series Statement: Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft : komparatistische Studien 38

Note: Literaturangaben

Language: English

Keywords: Infektionskrankheit 〈Motiv〉 ; Infektion 〈Motiv〉 ; Literatur ; Geschichte 1880-1933 ; Kongress ; Newcastle-upon-Tyne 〈2011〉 ; Kongress

URL: http://d-nb.info/1031968539/04

URL: http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=4269410&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm

UID:

Format: 1 online resource(vi,242p.) : , illustrations.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Edition: System requirements: Web browser.

Edition: Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.

ISBN: 9783110306118

Series Statement: spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature; 38

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , 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 / , Aweysha: Spiritual Epidemics and Psychic Contagion in the Works of Gustav Meyrink / , Living 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. , Also available in print edition. , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9783110305722

Additional Edition: ISBN 9783110306125

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783110306118

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110306118