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Schizophrenia --- Literature and mental illness --- Art and mental illness --- Schizophrénie --- Littérature et maladies mentales --- Art et maladies mentales

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Mental illness. --- Genius. --- Literature and mental illness. --- Maladies mentales --- Génie (Aptitude) --- Littérature et maladies mentales

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Fantasy literature --- Literature and mental illness --- Littérature fantastique --- Littérature et maladies mentales --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique

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Scientists, journalists, novelists, and filmmakers continue to generate narratives of contagion, stories shaped by a tradition of disease discourse that extends to early Greco-Roman literature. Lucretius, Vergil, and Ovid developed important conventions of the western plague narrative as a response to the breakdown of the Roman res publica in the mid-first century CE and the reconstitution of stabilized government under the Augustan Principate (31 BCE-14 CE): relying on the metaphoric relationship between the human body and the body politic, these authors used largely fictive representations of epidemic disease to address the collapse of the social order and suggest remedies for its recovery.Theorists such as Susan Sontag and René Girard have observed how the rhetoric of disease frequently signals social, psychological, or political pathologies, but their observations have rarely been applied to Latin literary practices. Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature explores how the origins and spread of outbreaks described by Roman writers enact a drama in which the concerns of the individual must be weighed against those of the collective, staged in an environment signalling both reversion to a pre-historic Golden Age and the devastation characteristic of a post-apocalyptic landscape. Such innovations in Latin literature have impacted representations as diverse as Carlo Coppola's paintings of a seventeenth-century outbreak of bubonic plague in Naples and Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam Trilogy. Understanding why Latin writers developed these tropes for articulating contagious disease and imbuing them with meaning for the collapse of the Roman body politic allows us to clarify what more recent disease discourses mean both for their creators and for the populations they afflict in contemporary media.

Latin literature - History and criticism --- Epidemics in literature --- Communicable diseases in literature --- Biopolitics in literature --- Diseases in literature --- Epidemics - Rome - History --- Littérature latine. --- Littérature et maladies. --- Maladies infectieuses --- Rome --- Histoire --- Latin literature --- Epidemics

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Thematology --- Psychiatry --- Psychological study of literature --- Literature and mental illness. --- Littérature et maladies mentales --- Literature and mental illness --- Mentally ill, Writings of the --- French literature --- Mental illness in literature --- History and criticism --- Littérature et maladies mentales --- Folie / dans la littérature. --- Gekheid / in de letterkunde. --- Mentally ill, Writings of the - History and criticism --- French literature - History and criticism