Format:
VI, 242 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource De Gruyter eBook-Paket Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN:
9783110305722
Series Statement:
spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature 38
Content:
Main description: 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.
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.
Content:
Biographical note: Martina King, Universität Bern, Switzerland; Thomas Rütten, Newcastle University, UK.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110306118
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110306125
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110305722
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110306125
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Contagionism and contagious diseases Berlin : De Gruyter, 2013 ISBN 3110305720
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110305722
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Infektionskrankheit
;
Infektion
;
Literatur
;
Geschichte 1880-1933
;
Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9783110306118
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