Annika Mann: 2 books
Reading Contagion
The Hazards of Reading in the Age of Print
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Eighteenth-century British culture was transfixed by the threat of contagion, believing that everyday elements of the surrounding world could transmit deadly maladies from one body to the next. Physicians and medical writers warned of noxious matter circulating through air, bodily fluids, paper, and...
Systems of Life
Biopolitics, Economics, and Literature on the Cusp of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Offers a wide-ranging revaluation of the emergence of biopolitics in Europe from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century