04670nam 22009253 450 991100898570332120230417060556.0978148754660114875466029781487546625148754662910.3138/9781487546625(MiAaPQ)EBC30464216(Au-PeEL)EBL30464216(OCoLC)1350603623(MdBmJHUP)musev2_111369(DE-B1597)653639(DE-B1597)9781487546625(CKB)26383114800041(OCoLC)1375293898(EXLCZ)992638311480004120230406d2023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Smallpox Report Vaccination and the Romantic Illness Narrative1st ed.Toronto :University of Toronto Press,2023.©2023.1 online resource (259 pages)Print version: Wang, Fuson The Smallpox Report Toronto : University of Toronto Press,c2023 9781487546595 Wordsworth’s Romantic Path to Biopower -- Darwin’s Evolutionary Metaphor -- Blake’s Revolutionary Metaphor -- Keats and the End of Disease -- Shelley and Romantic Immunity -- The Case of Sherlock Holmes."After the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination has become synonymous with an opaque biopower that legislates compulsory immunization at a distance. Contemporary illness narratives have become outlets for distrust, misinformation, reckless denialism, and selfish noncompliance. In The Smallpox Report, Fuson Wang rewinds this contemporary impasse between physician and patient back to the Romantic-era origins of vaccination. The book offers a literary-historical account of smallpox vaccination, contending that the disease’s eventual eradication in 1980 was as much a triumph of the literary imagination as it was an achievement of medical Enlightenment science. Wang traces our modern, pandemic-era crisis of vaccine hesitancy back to Edward Jenner’s publication of his treatise on vaccination in 1798, the first rumblings of an anti-vaccination movement, and vaccination’s formative literary history that included authors such as William Wordsworth, William Blake, John Keats, Mary Shelley, and Arthur Conan Doyle. The book concludes with a re-examination of the current deeply polarized and polarizing public discourse about vaccines in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. By recovering the surprisingly literary genres of Romantic-era medical writing, The Smallpox Report models a new literary historical perspective on our own crises of vaccine refusal."--Provided by publisher.Vaccination in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst01905027Vaccinationfast(OCoLC)fst01163544Smallpox in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst01904717Romanticismfast(OCoLC)fst01100133Medicine in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst01015167Literature and medicinefast(OCoLC)fst01000080English literaturefast(OCoLC)fst00911989Diseases in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst00895210RomanticismEnglandDiseases in literatureSmallpox in literatureVaccination in literatureMedicine in literatureVaccinationEnglandHistory18th centuryLiterature and medicineEnglandHistory18th centuryEnglish literature18th centuryHistory and criticismEnglandfastHistory.Criticism, interpretation, etc.Electronic books. Vaccination in literature.Vaccination.Smallpox in literature.Romanticism.Medicine in literature.Literature and medicine.English literature.Diseases in literature.RomanticismDiseases in literature.Smallpox in literature.Vaccination in literature.Medicine in literature.VaccinationHistoryLiterature and medicineHistoryEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.820.936Wang Fuson1825992MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911008985703321The Smallpox Report4393940UNINA