Contagionism and Contagious Diseases : Medicine and Literature 1880-1933.

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...

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Main Author: Rütten, Thomas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter, [2014]
Series:Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central