Affiliation:
1. School of English, Media Studies and Art History, 4th floor, Michie Building (Building 9), The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
Abstract
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.
Subject
Environmental Science (miscellaneous),Geography, Planning and Development
Reference70 articles.
1. American Heritage Medical Dictionary 2007, “Contagion” (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA) page 181.
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