TY - BOOK AU - Mann,Annika TI - Reading contagion: the hazards of reading in the age of print SN - 9780813941783 AV - PR858 .R433 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press KW - English fiction KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - Medicine in literature KW - Literature and medicine KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Communicable diseases in literature KW - Epidemics in literature KW - Diseases in literature KW - Books and reading KW - Social aspects KW - Health aspects KW - Contagion (Social psychology) KW - Communicable diseases KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index; 2; b N2 - "This books examines eighteenth-century beliefs that reading threatened to transform the world by creating new embodied collectives and fomenting large-scale epidemics"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1917335&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -