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edocfu_9958354175902883
Format:
1 online resource(vi,242p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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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.
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Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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Introduction /
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‘Social Contagionism’: Psychology, Criminology and Sociology in the Slipstream of Infection /
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The Overlap of Discourses of Contagion: Economic, Sexual, and Psychological /
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Exoticism, Bacteriology and the Staging of the Dangerous /
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Rousing Emotions in the Description of Contagious Diseases in Modernism /
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Anarchist and Aphrodite: On the Literary History of Germs /
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"[…] an entirely new form of bacteria for them": Contagionism and its Consequences in Laßwitz and Wells /
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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 Meyrink /
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Living with Rats and Mosquitoes: Different Paradigms of Cohabitation with Parasites in a German Narrative of Contagion around 1930 /
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Infectious Diseases in Max Frisch /
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Afterword /
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Notes on Contributors --
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Index of Names and Works.
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Also available in print edition.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110305722
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110306125
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110306118
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110306118
