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Aweysha: Spiritual Epidemics and Psychic Contagion in the Works of Gustav Meyrink
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Table of Contents v
- Introduction 1
- ‘Social Contagionism’: Psychology, Criminology and Sociology in the Slipstream of Infection 17
- The Overlap of Discourses of Contagion: Economic, Sexual, and Psychological 41
- Exoticism, Bacteriology and the Staging of the Dangerous 65
- Rousing Emotions in the Description of Contagious Diseases in Modernism 83
- Anarchist and Aphrodite: On the Literary History of Germs 101
- “[…] an entirely new form of bacteria for them”: Contagionism and its Consequences in Laßwitz and Wells 131
- Genius and Degenerate? Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus and a Medical Discourse on Syphilis 147
- Aweysha: Spiritual Epidemics and Psychic Contagion in the Works of Gustav Meyrink 167
- Living with Rats and Mosquitoes: Different Paradigms of Cohabitation with Parasites in a German Narrative of Contagion around 1930 185
- Infectious Diseases in Max Frisch 209
- Afterword 225
- Notes on Contributors 233
- Index of Names and Works 237
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Table of Contents v
- Introduction 1
- ‘Social Contagionism’: Psychology, Criminology and Sociology in the Slipstream of Infection 17
- The Overlap of Discourses of Contagion: Economic, Sexual, and Psychological 41
- Exoticism, Bacteriology and the Staging of the Dangerous 65
- Rousing Emotions in the Description of Contagious Diseases in Modernism 83
- Anarchist and Aphrodite: On the Literary History of Germs 101
- “[…] an entirely new form of bacteria for them”: Contagionism and its Consequences in Laßwitz and Wells 131
- Genius and Degenerate? Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus and a Medical Discourse on Syphilis 147
- Aweysha: Spiritual Epidemics and Psychic Contagion in the Works of Gustav Meyrink 167
- Living with Rats and Mosquitoes: Different Paradigms of Cohabitation with Parasites in a German Narrative of Contagion around 1930 185
- Infectious Diseases in Max Frisch 209
- Afterword 225
- Notes on Contributors 233
- Index of Names and Works 237