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.
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"This books examines eighteenth-century beliefs that reading threatened to transform the world by creating new embodied collectives and fomenting large-scale epidemics"--
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22573/ctv6xtdf4
9780813941776
Books and reading-- Health aspects.
Books and reading-- Social aspects-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
Communicable diseases in literature.
Communicable diseases.
Contagion (Social psychology)
Diseases in literature.
English fiction-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
Epidemics in literature.
Literature and medicine-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.