Reading contagion: the hazards of reading in the age of print
"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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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
Charlottesville London
University of Virginia Press
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Great Britain
/ Literature
/ Disease (Motif)
/ Reading culture
/ History
B Girard, René 1923-2015 |
| Further subjects: | B
Diseases in literature
B Communicable diseases in literature B Books and reading B Epidemics in literature B Social aspects B History B Literature and medicine B Thesis B English fiction B 18th Century B Great Britain B Medicine in Literature B 1700-1799 B History and criticism B Criticism, interpretation, etc B Bibliography |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
Electronic Electronic |
| Summary: | "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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| Item Description: | Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Indiana University, 2011 Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 223 - 244 |
| Physical Description: | xi, 257 Seiten, Ilustrationen, 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0-8139-4177-6 978-0-8139-4177-6 |
