| Contagionism and Contagious Diseases: Medicine and Literature 1880-1933 Contributor(s): Rütten, Thomas (Editor), King, Martina (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3110305720 ISBN-13: 9783110305722 Publisher: de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $137.74 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | History - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - History |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 2013043495 |
| Series: Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / Spectrum Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (1.05 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |