E-book
Reading contagion : the hazards of reading in the age of print
Record details
- ISBN: 0813941776
- ISBN: 9780813941776
- ISBN: 0813941784
- ISBN: 9780813941783
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 257 pages)
remote - Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 14, 2018). |
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| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. History. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
