Title Reading contagion : the hazards of reading in the age of print / Annika Mann

Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 257 pages) Contents Introduction: theorizing reading in the age of print -- Reading contagion in eighteenth-century medicine -- Infection: inspiring Alexander Pope's Dunciad -- Inoculation: Tobias Smollett and remediation -- Propagation: regeneration and William Blake's "Visible form" -- Extinction: sanitation and the end of plague in Mary Shelley's The last man Summary "This books examines eighteenth-century beliefs that reading threatened to transform the world by creating new embodied collectives and fomenting large-scale epidemics"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 14, 2018) Subject English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism Medicine in literature. Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Communicable diseases in literature. Epidemics in literature. Diseases in literature. Books and reading -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Books and reading -- Health aspects Contagion (Social psychology) Communicable diseases. Medicine in Literature Communicable Diseases LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading. MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Medicine in literature Literature and medicine Epidemics in literature English fiction Diseases in literature Communicable diseases in literature Books and reading -- Social aspects Communicable diseases Contagion (Social psychology) Great Britain Genre/Form History Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780813941783 0813941784

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