RÜTTEN, Th.; KING, M. (Eds.) Contagionism and Contagious Diseases. Medicine and Literature 1880-1933. Berlin, De Gruyter, 2013.



RÜTTEN, Th.; KING, M. (Eds.) Contagionism and Contagious Diseases. Medicine and Literature 1880-1933. Berlin, De Gruyter, 2013.


Martina King, Thomas Rütten: Introduction

-Olaf Briese: 'Social Contagionism': Psychology, Criminology and Sociology in the Slipstream of Infection

-George Rousseau: The Overlap Discourses of Contagion. Economic, Sexual and Psychological

-Christoph Grandmann: Exoticism, Bacteriology and the Staging of Dangerous

-Thomas Anz: Rousing Emotions in the Description of Contagious Diseases in Modernism

-Martina King: Anarchist and Aphrodite: On the Literary History of Germs

-Nicholas Saul: "[...] an entirely new form of bacteria for them": Contagionism and its Consequences in Lasswitz and Wells

-Thomas Rútten: Genius and Degenerate? Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus and a Medical Discourse on Syphilis

-Luis Montiel Aweysha: Spiritual Epidemics and Psychic Contagion in the Works of Gustav Meyrink

-Rudolf Käser: Living with rats and Mosquitoes: Different paradigms of Cohabitation with parasites in a German narrative of Contagion around 1930

-Yahya Elshage: Infectious Diseases in Max Frisch

-Priscilla Wald: Afterword