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OverviewThe Smallpox Report explores the Romantic-era medical and literary narratives that made vaccination plausible, available, and desirable. After the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination has become synonymous with an opaque biopower that legislates compulsory immunization at a distance. Contemporary illness narratives have become outlets for distrust, misinformation, reckless denialism, and selfish noncompliance. In The Smallpox Report, Fuson Wang rewinds this contemporary impasse between physician and patient back to the Romantic-era origins of vaccination. The book offers a literary-historical account of smallpox vaccination, contending that the disease's eventual eradication in 1980 was as much a triumph of the literary imagination as it was an achievement of medical Enlightenment science. Wang traces our modern, pandemic-era crisis of vaccine hesitancy back to Edward Jenner's publication of his treatise on vaccination in 1798, the first rumblings of an anti-vaccination movement, and vaccination's formative literary history that included authors such as William Wordsworth, William Blake, John Keats, Mary Shelley, and Arthur Conan Doyle. The book concludes with a re-examination of the current deeply polarized and polarizing public discourse about vaccines in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. By recovering the surprisingly literary genres of Romantic-era medical writing, The Smallpox Report models a new literary historical perspective on our own crises of vaccine refusal. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Fuson WangPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9781487546595ISBN 10: 1487546599 Pages: 258 Publication Date: 04 April 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Part One: Classification Introduction 1. Wordsworth’s Romantic Path to Biopower Part Two: Experimentation 2. Darwin’s Evolutionary Metaphor 3. Blake’s Revolutionary Metaphor Part Three: Interdisciplinarity 4. Keats and the End of Disease 5. Shelley and Romantic Immunity Part Four: Modern Biopower 6. The Case of Sherlock Holmes Conclusion Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsThe Smallpox Report is thoroughly researched and impressive. Fuson Wang demonstrates familiarity with many classics of British literary Romanticism, including works on Romantic literature and vaccination, literature and medicine, and narrative medicine. He builds his authority and shows a mastery of his topics, both broadly and specifically considered. The use of theoretical texts to support the book's interpretation shows an intellectual curiosity that will surely appeal to many scholars. - Michelle Faubert, Professor of Romantic Literature, University of Manitoba Compelling and timely, The Smallpox Report presents a key episode in the history of medicine, the emergence of smallpox vaccination and its attendant social, cultural, and political fallout. Fuson Wang returns us to a re-examination of the current deeply polarized and polarizing public discourse about vaccines and scientific authority - most visible, of course, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic - urging us to see both sides of the debates as products of the historical wins and losses detailed within the chapters of this book. - James Allard, Associate Professor of English, Brock University """The Smallpox Report is thoroughly researched and impressive. Fuson Wang demonstrates familiarity with many classics of British literary Romanticism, including works on Romantic literature and vaccination, literature and medicine, and narrative medicine. He builds his authority and shows a mastery of his topics, both broadly and specifically considered. The use of theoretical texts to support the book's interpretation shows an intellectual curiosity that will surely appeal to many scholars."" - Michelle Faubert, Professor of Romantic Literature, University of Manitoba ""Compelling and timely, The Smallpox Report presents a key episode in the history of medicine, the emergence of smallpox vaccination and its attendant social, cultural, and political fallout. Fuson Wang returns us to a re-examination of the current deeply polarized and polarizing public discourse about vaccines and scientific authority - most visible, of course, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic - urging us to see both sides of the debates as products of the historical wins and losses detailed within the chapters of this book."" - James Allard, Associate Professor of English, Brock University" Author InformationFuson Wang is an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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