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Imagining contagion in early modern Europe
- Title
- Imagining contagion in early modern Europe / edited by Claire L. Carlin.
- Publication
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Carlin, Claire L.
- Description
- xii, 289 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-270) and index.
- Contents
- PART I. THEORY -- Fracastoro's De Contagione and Medieval reflection on 'action at a distance': old and new trends in Renaissance discourse on the plague / Isabelle Pantin -- The animism of ambient air at the end of the Middle Ages / Glaude Gagnon -- Windows on contagion / Donald Beecher -- Contagions of love: textual transmission / Nancy Frelick -- The devil's curses: the demonic origin of disease in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Marianne Closson -- PART II. PRACTICE -- Apples and moustaches: Montaigne's grin in the face of infection / Hélène Cazes -- Contagion, honour and urban life in early modern Germany / Mitchell Lewis Hammond -- Corruptible bodies and contaminating technologies: Jesuit devotional print and the 1656 plague in Naples / Rose Marie San Juan -- Quarantine and caress / Frédéric Charbonneau -- The preaching disease: contagious ecstasy in eighteenth-century Sweden / Daniel Lindmark -- PART III. PROJECTIONS -- A contagion at the source of discourse on sexualities: syphilis during the French Renaissance / Guy Poirier -- Contagious laughter and the Burlesque: from the literal to the metaphorical / Dominique Bertrand -- The pathology of reading: the novel as an agent of contagion / Michel Fournier -- Religious contagion in mid-seventeenth-century Englad / Nicole Greenspan -- Contagion by conceit: mentruosity and the rhetoric of smallpox into the age of inoculation / David E. Shuttleton.
- Call Number
- JFD 06-5140
- ISBN
- 1403939268 (cloth)
- LCCN
- 2005045403
- 9781403939265 (cloth)
- OCLC
- 58563155
- Title
- Imagining contagion in early modern Europe / edited by Claire L. Carlin.
- Imprint
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-270) and index.
- Added Author
- Carlin, Claire L.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9781403939265 (cloth)
- Research Call Number
- JFD 06-5140