Embodying Contagion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Embodying Contagion write by Sandra Becker. This book was released on 2021-03-15. Embodying Contagion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brings together new research that lays out the current state of contagion studies, from the perspective of media studies, monster studies, and the medical humanities. Offers fresh perspectives on contagion studies from disciplines such as the social sciences and the medical humanities, introducing new methods of collaboration and avenues of research, and demonstrating how these disciplines have already been working in parallel for several decades. Covers a wide variety of international media and contexts, including literature, film, television, public policy, and social networks. Includes key, recent case studies (including public health documents and the popular Netflix series Santa Clarita Diet) that have not yet been analysed anywhere else in the field. Bucks the current trend of going back to plague literature and historical plagues in the search for meaning to address current and late-20th century epidemics, diseases, and monsters.
Contagion and the Vampire
Contagion and the Vampire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contagion and the Vampire write by Simon Bacon. This book was released on 2023-08-10. Contagion and the Vampire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines how the vampire has always been connected to ideas of infection, pollution and disease—even more so in the 21st century where it expresses the horrors of unseen and unstoppable disease and the foreboding and anxiety that accompany viral outbreaks and wider epidemics. Here the vampire gives physical form to the contagion and associated anxieties around the perceived causes and spread of disease, where it can take on many forms from animal to pestilential particulate matter, creeping shadows and even malignant weather systems. If blood is life, it is the body of the vampire that is death. This timely study looks at how and why the vampire continues to fulfil this function and posits that the true patient zero in the 21st century is no longer the dangerous, ancient, outsider from the East but is the undying monster that is Western culture itself.
Places Through the Body
Places Through the Body - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Places Through the Body write by Heidi Nast. This book was released on 2005-08-12. Places Through the Body available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This exciting collection from a leading team of international contributors interprets the symbolic and material relationships between places and bodies.
The Sun King at Sea
The Sun King at Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sun King at Sea write by Meredith Martin. This book was released on 2022-01-04. The Sun King at Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France, shows how royal propagandists used the image and labor of enslaved Muslims to glorify Louis XIV. Mediterranean maritime art and the forced labor on which it depended were fundamental to the politics and propaganda of France’s King Louis XIV (r. 1643–1715). Yet most studies of French art in this period focus on Paris and Versailles, overlooking the presence or portrayal of galley slaves on the kingdom’s coasts. By examining a wide range of artistic productions—ship design, artillery sculpture, medals, paintings, and prints—Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss uncover a vital aspect of royal representation and unsettle a standard picture of art and power in early modern France. With an abundant selection of startling images, many never before published, The Sun King at Sea emphasizes the role of esclaves turcs (enslaved Turks)—rowers who were captured or purchased from Islamic lands—in building and decorating ships and other art objects that circulated on land and by sea to glorify the Crown. Challenging the notion that human bondage vanished from continental France, this cross-disciplinary volume invites a reassessment of servitude as a visible condition, mode of representation, and symbol of sovereignty during Louis XIV’s reign.
Kept from All Contagion
Kept from All Contagion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kept from All Contagion write by Kari Nixon. This book was released on 2020-05-01. Kept from All Contagion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduction: "The germ theory again" : disease, ideology, and the possibilities of biotic life in the world of antibiotic purity -- Keep bleeding : plague, vaccination debates, and the necessity of leaky boundaries in Defoe's Journal of the plague year and Shelley's The last man -- "A speculative idea" : childbed fever, early germ theory debates, and (en)gendered speculation in Henry James's Washington Square -- Separation and suffocation : tuberculosis, etiological uncertainty, and female friendship in women's fiction -- Tainted love : venereal disease, morality, and the contagious disease acts in Ibsen's Ghosts and Hardy's The woodlanders and Jude the obscure -- Humanity's waste : typhoid fever, the failure of isolation, and the development of probiotics in three late-century works -- Conclusion: Shuffling within our mortal coil : concluding remarks.
