LEADER 04833nam 2200745 450 001 9910790834203321 005 20230126203723.0 010 $a3-11-030611-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110306118 035 $a(CKB)2550000001169809 035 $a(EBL)1130365 035 $a(OCoLC)865329957 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001060775 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11665912 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001060775 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11087406 035 $a(PQKB)11487405 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1130365 035 $a(DE-B1597)206954 035 $a(OCoLC)1013941646 035 $a(OCoLC)885389234 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110306118 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1130365 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10819864 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL551794 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001169809 100 $a20131104h20132013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aContagionism and Contagious Diseases $eMedicine and Literature 1880-1933 /$fedited by Thomas Ru?tten and Martina King 210 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston :$cDe Gruyter,$d[2013] 210 4$d©2013 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 225 1 $aSpectrum Literaturwissenschaft : Komparatistische Studien = Spectrum literature : comparative studies,$x1860-210X ;$vBand 38 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-030572-0 311 $a1-306-20543-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tTable of Contents -- $tIntroduction / $rKing, Martina / Rütten, Thomas -- $t'Social Contagionism': Psychology, Criminology and Sociology in the Slipstream of Infection / $rBriese, Olaf -- $tThe Overlap of Discourses of Contagion: Economic, Sexual, and Psychological / $rRousseau, George -- $tExoticism, Bacteriology and the Staging of the Dangerous / $rGradmann, Christoph -- $tRousing Emotions in the Description of Contagious Diseases in Modernism / $rAnz, Thomas -- $tAnarchist and Aphrodite: On the Literary History of Germs / $rKing, Martina -- $t"[...] an entirely new form of bacteria for them": Contagionism and its Consequences in Laßwitz and Wells / $rSaul, Nicholas -- $tGenius and Degenerate? Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus and a Medical Discourse on Syphilis / $rRütten, Thomas -- $tAweysha: Spiritual Epidemics and Psychic Contagion in the Works of Gustav Meyrink / $rMontiel, Luis -- $tLiving with Rats and Mosquitoes: Different Paradigms of Cohabitation with Parasites in a German Narrative of Contagion around 1930 / $rKäser, Rudolf -- $tInfectious Diseases in Max Frisch / $rElsaghe, Yahya -- $tAfterword / $rWald, Priscilla -- $tNotes on Contributors -- $tIndex of Names and Works 330 $aThe idea of contagious transmission, either by material particles or by infectious ideas, has played a powerful role in the development of the Western World since antiquity. Yet it acquired quite a precise signature during the process of scientific and cultural differentiation in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This volume explores the significance and cultural functions of contagionism in this period, from notions of infectious homosexuality and the concept of social contagion to the political implications of bacteriological fieldwork. The history of the concept 'microbe' in aesthetic modernism is adressed as well as bacteriological metaphors in American literary historiography. Within this broad framework, contagionism as a literary narrative is approached in more focussed contributions: from its emotional impact in literary modernism to the idea of physical or psychic contagion in authors such as H.G. Wells, Kurt Lasswitz, Gustav Meyrinck, Ernst Weiss, Thomas Mann and Max Frisch. This twofold approach of general topics and individual literary case studies produces a deeper understanding of the symbolic implications of contagionism marking the boundaries between sick and healthy, familiar and alien, morally pure and impure. 410 0$aSpectrum Literaturwissenschaft ;$v38. 606 $aCommunicable diseases in literature 606 $aLiterature and medicine 606 $aContagion (Social psychology) 610 $aContagionism. 610 $abacteriology. 610 $aillness narratives. 610 $aliterary Modernism. 610 $amedical metaphors. 615 0$aCommunicable diseases in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and medicine. 615 0$aContagion (Social psychology) 676 $a809/.933561 701 $aRu?tten$b Thomas$0386537 701 $aKing$b Martina$01567199 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790834203321 996 $aContagionism and Contagious Diseases$93838419 997 $aUNINA