The Smallpox Report : : Vaccination and the Romantic Illness Narrative /

The Smallpox Report : : Vaccination and the Romantic Illness Narrative / / Fuson Wang.

After the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination has become synonymous with an opaque biopower that legislates compulsory immunization at a distance. Contemporary illness narratives have become outlets for distrust, misinformation, reckless denialism, and selfish noncompliance. In The Smallpox Report, Fuson...

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Wang, Fuson,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (258 p.) :; 15 colour illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART ONE: Classification
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Wordsworth’s Romantic Path to Biopower
  • PART TWO: Experimentation
  • Chapter Two. Darwin’s Evolutionary Metaphor
  • Chapter Three. Blake’s Revolutionary Metaphor
  • PART THREE. Interdisciplinarity
  • Chapter Four. Keats and the End of Disease
  • Chapter Five. Shelley and Romantic Immunity
  • PART FOUR: Modern Biopower
  • Chapter Six. The Case of Sherlock Holmes
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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