5 Isn’t Contagion Just a Metaphor? Reading Contagion in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Contagion as Unruly Subject 1
4. Part I. Quarantine/Exposure
5. 1. “A Proper Contagion” The Inoculation Narrative and the Immunological Turn 27
6. 2. Before the Cell, There Was Virus Rethinking the Concept of Parasite and Contagion through Contemporary Research in Evolutionary Virology 42
7. 3. Social (Ir)Responsibility Vaccine Exemption and the Ethics of Immunity 56
8. 4. Radiophobia and the Politics of Social Contagion 71
9. Part II. Flesh/Spirit
10. 5 Isn’t Contagion Just a Metaphor? Reading Contagion in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year 87
11. 6. Contagious Accumulation and Racial Capitalism in Late Nineteenth-Century American Fiction 103
12. 7. Performance and the Contagious Swirl of Dramatic Tradition. Performative Revision and Subversion 116
13. Part III. Madness/Reason
14. 8. Viral Murder Contagious Killings and Epidemic Beliefs 133
15. 9. Am I a Psychopath? 147
16. 10. Cult of the Penis. Male Fragility and Phallic Frenzy 160
17. Part IV. Revolution/Bureaucracy
18. 11. Fear of the Diseased Immigrant. Contagion, Xenophobia, and Belonging 175
19. 12. Prophylactic Policing and the Epidemiology of Dissent in the 189
20. 13. Sexual Politics and Contagious Social Movements 204
21. 14. Words on Fire Radical Pedagogies of the Feminist Manifesto 218
22. Acknowledgments 233
23. Notes on Contributors 235
24. Index 239