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Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe

Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe

Claire L. Carlin

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
2005
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Filosofía
ISBN:
9781403939265

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Introduction; C.L.Carlin PART I: THEORY Fracastoro’s De Contagione and Medieval Reflection on ’Action at a Distance’: Old and New Trends in the Renaissance Discourse on the Plague; I.Pantin The Animism of Ambient Air at the End of the Middle Ages; C.Gagnon Windows on Contagion; D.Beecher Contagions of Love: Textual Transmission; N.M.Frelick The Devil’s Curses: The Demonic Origin of Disease in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; M.Closson PART II: PRACTICE Apples and Moustaches: Montaigne’s Grin in the Face of Infection; H.Cazes Contagion, Honour and Urban Life in Early Modern Germany; M.L.Hammond Corruptible Bodies and Contaminating Technologies: Jesuit Devotional Print and the 1656 Plague in Naples; R.M.San Juan Quarantine and Caress; F.Charbonneau The Preaching Disease: Contagious Ecstasy in 18th-Century Sweden; D.Lindmark PART III: PROJECTION A Contagion at the Source of Discourse on Sexualities: Syphilis during the French Resistance; G.Poirier Contagious Laughter and the Burlesque: From the Literal to the Metaphorical; D.Bertrand The Pathology of Reading: The Novel as an Agent of Contagion; M.Fournier Religious Contagion in Mid-Seventeenth Century England; N.Greenspan Contagion by Conceit: Menstruosity and the Rhetoric of Smallpox into the Age of Innoculation; D.Shuttleton An Afterword on Contagion; D.Beecher General Bibliography

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