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    "pk": 43110,
    "title": "The Specter of the Pandemic: Politics and Poetics of Cholera in 19th-Century Literature--An Introduction",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "In the nineteenth century,  cholera made a deep impression on the collective memory of entire  generations. As a human-medical borderline experience, it was a  scientific driving force, a political destabilizing factor, and a  challenge to poetics. At the interface of literary studies and medical  history and by using nineteenth-century literary texts from North  American, British, and German authors as examples, this transnational  study shows for the first time comprehensively, that despite a supposed  “impossibility of narration”, the traumatic pandemic experience of  cholera found its way into contemporary literature, particularly in the  model of the specter. Through culturally and historically framed textual  analyses of literary texts by Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, George  Eliot, H.G. Wells, Heinrich Heine, Ricarda Huch, and others as well as a  variety of contemporary life writing documents, the study explores the  multifarious intersections of lifeworld and literature. Within the  methodological and theoretical framework of the Medical Humanities and  Gothic Studies, it thus reveals genuine strategies for making the  unspeakable speakable. By the use of epi- and pandemic experience as an example of a state of  emergency, the study shows how closely scientific, political, social,  and cultural discourses are interwoven, how they influence each other,  and what role art and literature play in these processes of exchange. \n The Spectre of the Pandemic\n thus raises awareness of the interdependence  of most diverse knowledge formations and is a plea for inter- and  transdisciplinary thinking and research, especially in times of crisis. The present excerpt is a translated, abridged and slightly adapted  version of the introduction of the study \nDas Gespenst der Pandemie:  Politik und Poetik der Cholera in der Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts\n, originally published by frommann-holzboog publishing house.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC-ND 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "pandemics"
        },
        {
            "word": "medicine and literature"
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        {
            "word": "cholera and 19th-century literature"
        },
        {
            "word": "Medical Humanities"
        },
        {
            "word": "Forward translation"
        },
        {
            "word": "Gothic studies"
        },
        {
            "word": "Transnational American Studies"
        },
        {
            "word": "history of medicine"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Forward",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2766x0ch",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Davina",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Höll",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Tübingen",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2022-05-05T07:30:58Z",
    "date_accepted": "2022-05-05T07:30:58Z",
    "date_published": "2022-10-25T22:33:55Z",
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