Reading Contagion: The Hazards of Reading in the Age of Print by Annika Mann

Reading Contagion: The Hazards of Reading in the Age of Print

Annika Mann

272 pages 2018

2 editions

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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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 matt...

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