TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rütten,Thomas
TI  - Contagionism and Contagious Diseases: Medicine and Literature 1880-1933
T2  - Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature
SN  - 3110306115
AV  - PN56.D56 
U1  - 809.9 
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Berlin
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - Communicable diseases in literature
KW  - Literature and medicine
KW  - Contagion (Social psychology)
KW  - Maladies infectieuses dans la littérature
KW  - Littérature et médecine
KW  - Contagion sociale
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Table of Contents; Introduction; 'Social Contagionism': Psychology, Criminology and Sociology in the Slipstream of Infection; The Overlap of Discourses of Contagion: Economic, Sexual, and Psychological; Exoticism, Bacteriology and the Staging of the Dangerous; Rousing Emotions in the Description of Contagious Diseases in Modernism; Anarchist and Aphrodite: On the Literary History of Germs; " ... an entirely new form of bacteria for them": Contagionism and its Consequences in Laßwitz and Wells; Genius and Degenerate? Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus and a Medical Discourse on Syphilis; 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
N2  - 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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