Reading contagion : the hazards of reading in the age of print /
Mann, Annika,
Reading contagion : the hazards of reading in the age of print / Annika Mann. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (xi, 257 pages).
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index
"This books examines eighteenth-century beliefs that reading threatened to transform the world by creating new embodied collectives and fomenting large-scale epidemics"--
9780813941783
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
Medicine in literature.
Literature and medicine--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Communicable diseases in literature.
Epidemics in literature.
Diseases in literature.
Books and reading--Social aspects--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Books and reading--Health aspects.
Contagion (Social psychology)
Communicable diseases.
Electronic Books.
PR858 / .R433 2018 Z1003
Reading contagion : the hazards of reading in the age of print / Annika Mann. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (xi, 257 pages).
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index
"This books examines eighteenth-century beliefs that reading threatened to transform the world by creating new embodied collectives and fomenting large-scale epidemics"--
9780813941783
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
Medicine in literature.
Literature and medicine--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Communicable diseases in literature.
Epidemics in literature.
Diseases in literature.
Books and reading--Social aspects--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Books and reading--Health aspects.
Contagion (Social psychology)
Communicable diseases.
Electronic Books.
PR858 / .R433 2018 Z1003