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Contagion and infection / Arnold Weinstein, issue editor.

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Contagion and infection / Arnold Weinstein, issue editor.
Publication
Baltimore, MD : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2003], ©2003.

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Weinstein, Arnold.
Description
xi, 131 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Literature and medicine ; v. 21, no. 1
Uniform Title
Literature and medicine ; v. 21, no. 1.
Subject
  • Communicable Diseases
  • England
  • History, 18th Century
  • Infection
  • Medicine in Literature
  • Plague
Note
  • "Spring 2003."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Contagion and blame in early modern England: the case of the French Pox -- Defoe's journal and the English plague writing tradition -- Infectious wit: metaphor, atheism, and the plague in Eighteenth-Century London -- Narrating the unexceptional: the are of medical inquiry in Victorian England and the present -- Microbiography and resistance in the human culture medium -- Afterword: Infection as metaphor.
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