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).
"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.