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Claire L. Carlin
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University of Victoria, Canada
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Projections
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Front Matter
Pages 155-155
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About this book
The ideological underpinnings of early modern theories of contagion are dissected in this volume by an integrated team of literary scholars, cultural historians, historians of medicine and art historians. Even today, the spread of disease inspires moralizing discourse and the ostracism of groups thought responsible for contagion; the fear of illness and the desire to make sense of it are demonstrated in the current preoccupation with HIV, SARS, 'mad cow' disease, West Nile virus and avian flu, to cite but a few contemporary examples. Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe explores the nature of understanding when humanity is faced with threats to its well-being, if not to its very survival.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Victoria, Canada
Claire L. Carlin
About the editor
DONALD BEECHER Professor of English at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada
DOMINIQUE BERTRAND Professor of French Literature, Université Clermont II, France
HÉLÈNE CAZES Lecturer in Renaissance French Literature, University of Victoria, Canada
FRÉDÉRIC CHARBONNEAU William Dawson Scholar and Professor of Eighteenth-Century French Literature, McGill University, Canada
MARIANNE CLOSSON Lecturer in Renaissance Literature, Université d'Artois, France
MICHEL FOURNIER Assistant Professor, Department of French, University of Ottawa, Canada
NANCY M. FRELICK Associate Professor of French, University of British Columbia, Canada
CLAUDE GAGNON Researcher, and founded of Horizons Philosophiques
NICOLE GREENSPAN Researcher
MITCHELL LEWIS HAMMOND Assistant Professor of History, University of Victoria, Canada
DANIEL LINDMARK Professor of History and History Didactics, Umeå University, Sweden
ISABELLE PANTIN Professor of Renaissance Literature, Université of Paris X-Nanterre, France
GUY POIRIER Lecturer in French Renaissance Literature, Department of French Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada
ROSE MARIE SAN JUAN Lecturer, Department of History of Art, University College London, UK
DAVID SHUTTLETON Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
