Geographies/Aerographies of Contagion

Peta Robyn Mitchell

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In this paper I argue that geography, contagion, and the element of air have historically overlapped in interesting ways and that they continue to do so. By tracing metaphors of air, wind, miasma, and contagion through literary works that span nearly three centuries, I argue that the element of air tends to signify, in cultural expression, a more ambiguous, affective form of contagion that is also bound up with the spread of ideas and information.

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2007The Politics of Life Itself 2008Contagious 1983The seeds of disease: An explanation of contagion and infection from the Greeks to the Renaissance 2003Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine 2009Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film 2004Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature

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