Contagionism and Contagious Diseases (eBook)

Medicine and Literature 1880-1933

Thomas Rütten, Martina King (Herausgeber)

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2014
248 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-030611-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Understanding how ‘contagion’ and ‘infection’ have become powerful metaphors requires a historical reconstruction of this semantic field in the late 19th and early 20th century, when these concepts acquired a scientific meaning. The volume offers an interdisciplinary approach to the cultural history of contagionism between medical bacteriology, the social sciences and literary adaptations. The symbolic implications of ‘contagion’ and high-profile contagious diseases are addressed, which mark the boundaries between sick and healthy, familiar and alien, morally pure and impure.

Martina King, University of Bern, Switzerland; Thomas Rütten, Newcastle University, UK.

Autoren

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Martina King, Universität Bern, Schweiz; Thomas Rütten, Newcastle University, UK.

Martina King, University of Bern, Switzerland; Thomas Rütten, Newcastle University, UK.

Inhalt

Table of Contents 5
Introduction 7
‘Social Contagionism’: Psychology, Criminology and Sociology in the Slipstream of Infection 23
The Overlap of Discourses of Contagion: Economic, Sexual, and Psychological 47
Exoticism, Bacteriology and the Staging of the Dangerous 71
Rousing Emotions in the Description of Contagious Diseases in Modernism 89
Anarchist and Aphrodite: On the Literary History of Germs 107
“[…] an entirely new form of bacteria for them”: Contagionism and its Consequences in Laßwitz and Wells 137
Genius and Degenerate? Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus and a Medical Discourse on Syphilis 153
Aweysha: Spiritual Epidemics and Psychic Contagion in the Works of Gustav Meyrink 173
Living with Rats and Mosquitoes: Different Paradigms of Cohabitation with Parasites in a German Narrative of Contagion around 1930 191
Infectious Diseases in Max Frisch 215
Afterword 231
Notes on Contributors 239
Index of Names and Works 243

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.11.2014
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature
• Reihe/Serie: spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature
• Zusatzinfo: 10 b/w ill.
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Schlagworte: Ansteckung • Bacteriology • Bakteriologie • Contagionism • illness narratives • Krankheitsnarrative • Literarische Moderne • Literary modernism • medical metaphors • Metaphern, medizinische
• ISBN-10: 3-11-030611-5 / 3110306115
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-030611-8 / 9783110306118