Philippa Nicole Barr (Canberra Australian National University)

Uncertainty and Emotion in the 1900 Sydney Plague

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Produktbeschreibung

This Element demonstrates that during the 3rd global plague pandemic, disgust was a means of producing and protecting social identity rather than a form of pathogen avoidance. By presenting flexibility in the disgust response, it contributes to debates about the influence of knowledge on embodied emotion and affect.

Produktdetails

• Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9781108821063
• ISBN-10: 1108821065
• Artikelnr.: 69234051

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Outbreak of plague at Sydney, 1900
3. The symbolism of dirt in discursive responses to plague
4. Development of a city
5. 'A maze of contradictory observations': medical eclecticism and changing understandings of disease causation
6. Transforming the atmosphere
7. Mediating affect
Bibliography.