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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ISBN:1306205433
ISBN:9781306205436
ISBN:9783110306125
ISBN:3110306123
ISBN:9783110305722
ISBN:3110305720
ISBN:9783110306118
ISBN:3110306115
Physical Description:1 online resource remote
Publisher:Berlin : De Gruyter, [2014]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Aweysha: Spiritual Epidemics and Psychic Contagion in the Works of Gustav MeyrinkLiving 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.
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