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Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictionalizing make to the shape and texture of versions of and debates about history during that period. Geographically, the scope of the essays extends beyond Europe and England to include Asia and Africa. Contributors take a number of different approaches to understand the relationship between history, fiction, and broader themes in early modern culture. They analyze the ways fiction writers use historical sources, fictional texts translate ideas about the past into a vernacular accessible to broad audiences, fictional depictions and interpretations shape historical action, and the ways in which nonfictional texts and accounts were given fictional histories of their own, intentionally or not, through transmission and interpretation. By combining the already contested idea of fiction with performance, action, and ideas/ideology, this collection provides a more thorough consideration of fictional histories in the early modern period. It also covers more than two centuries of primary material, providing a longer perspective on the changing and complex role of history in forming early modern national, gendered, and cultural identities.

Prose literature --- Literature and society --- Literature and history --- Imagination --- History and criticism. --- History --- Imagery, Mental --- Images, Mental --- Mental imagery --- Mental images --- Educational psychology --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- Social aspects --- History as a science --- History of civilization --- anno 1500-1799

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Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein is its own type of monster mythos that will not die, a corpus whose parts keep getting harvested to animate new artistic creations. What makes this tale so adaptable and so resilient that, nearly 200 years later, it remains vitally relevant in a culture radically different from the one that spawned its birth? Monstrous Progeny takes readers on a fascinating exploration of the Frankenstein family tree, tracing the literary and intellectual roots of Shelley's novel from the sixteenth century and analyzing the evolution of the book's figures and themes into modern productions that range from children's cartoons to pornography. Along the way, media scholar Lester D. Friedman and historian Allison B. Kavey examine the adaptation and evolution of Victor Frankenstein and his monster across different genres and in different eras. In doing so, they demonstrate how Shelley's tale and its characters continue to provide crucial reference points for current debates about bioethics, artificial intelligence, cyborg lifeforms, and the limits of scientific progress. Blending an extensive historical overview with a detailed analysis of key texts, the authors reveal how the Frankenstein legacy arose from a series of fluid intellectual contexts and continues to pulsate through an extraordinary body of media products. Both thought-provoking and entertaining, Monstrous Progeny offers a lively look at an undying and significant cultural phenomenon. --

Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) --- Monsters in mass media. --- PERFORMING ARTS --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Medicine in Literature. --- Literature --- Drama --- Motion Pictures as Topic --- Monstres --- Film & Video --- History & Criticism. --- Gothic & Romance. --- Popular Culture. --- European --- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- Semiotics & Theory. --- Media Studies. --- Science Fiction & Fantasy. --- history. --- Dans les médias --- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, --- Frankenstein's monster --- Frankenstein, Victor --- Frankenstein's Monster --- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft --- Adapatations. --- Adaptations --- Iconography --- English literature --- Thematology --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Monsters in mass media --- Adapatations --- Motion Pictures --- Dans les médias. --- Victor Frankenstein [Fictitious character] --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance. --- PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. --- Mass media --- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, --- Shelli, Mėri, --- Shelley, --- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, --- Shelley, Mary, --- Shelley, Maria, --- שלי, מרי, --- Frankenstein --- Dr. Frankenstein --- Frankenstein, --- Adaptations. --- Dans les médias.

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"Written by a public health practitioner and a medical historian, Viral Epidemics explores the terrifying world of viruses as the cause of all acute pandemics since 1900, including the COVID-19 pandemic. The book illuminates the critical dual roles of viral biology and increasing global interconnectedness that have resulted in an escalating pandemic spiral. Viral Epidemics is the only book that provides a complete historical narrative focused on viral epidemics. This comprehensive survey is designed for students and scholars in biology, epidemiology, public health, global history, and the history of medicine, as well as being of interest to the general reader"--

Communicable diseases --- Virus diseases --- Epidemics --- Maladies infectieuses --- Viroses --- Épidémies --- History. --- Histoire. --- Épidémies

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