Afterword: Infection as metaphor

Literature and Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 102-115

  Weinstein, Arnold ^a  

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EID: 37349040489     PISSN: 02789671     EISSN: 10806571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lm.2003.0012     Document Type: Review

References (20)

1. René Girard, Violence and the Sacred, trans. Patrick Gregory (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979)
2. Tina Young Choi, "Narrating the Unexceptional: The Art of Medical Inquiry in Victorian England and the Present," Literature and Medicine 22 (2003): 65-83
3. Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors (New York: Anchor, 1990)
4. See, for example, Sander Gilman, Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985) and Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988) for two of the many studies he has written on the cultural construction of others as toxic or diseased
5. Margaret Healy, "Defoe's Journal and the English Plague Writing Tradition," Literature and Medicine 22 (2003): 25-44
6. Roger D. Lund, "Infectious Wit: Metaphor, Atheism, and the Plague in Eighteenth-Century London," Literature and Medicine 22 (2003): 45-64
7. Quoted by Mary Sandbach in her "Introduction" to August Strindberg's Inferno/From An Occult Diary, trans. Mary Sandbach (London: Penguin, 1979), p. 23
8. Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts, in Ibsen, The Complete Major Prose Plays, trans. Rolf Fjelde (New York: New American Library, 1978)
9. Charles Dickens, Bleak House (London: Penguin, 1994), p. 447. Subsequent references to Bleak House mil be given parenthetically in the text
10. Shakespeare, Hamlet, ed. Cyrus Henry Hoy (New York: Norton, 1992), I, iv, 90. Subsequent references to Hamlet will be drawn from this edition
11. William W. E. Slights and Louis F. Qualtiere, "Contagion and Blame in Early Modern England: The Case of the French Pox," Literature and Medicine 22 (2003): 1-24
12. Tony Kushner, Angels in America (New York: Theater Communications Group, 1992, 1994)
13. Claude Lévi-Strauss, "The Structural Study of Myth," in The Structuralists: From Marx to Lévi-Strauss, ed. Richard and Fernande DeGeorge (New York: Anchor, 1972), 169-97, 179
14. For a fascinating follow-up on Lévi-Strauss's germinal study of the oedipal myth, see J. P. Vernant's "From Oedipus to Periander: Lameness, Tyranny, Incest in Legend and History," Arethusa 15 (1982): 19-38; Vernant offers a remarkable account of the philosophical ramifications of "walking problems" in ancient Greek thinking, showing how the physiological infirmity is inseparable from larger notions of behavior, ranging from speech to sexuality
15. Antonin Artaud, "Le théâtre et la peste," in Le Théâtre et son double (Paris: Gallimard, 1962)
16. the original French was published in 1938. The English version, The Theater and Its Double, trans. Mary Caroline Richards (New York: Grove Press, 1954), has long been one of the most influential theatrical manifestoes ever written, and the meditation on theater and plague rightly occupies a place of prominence in Artaud's thinking (if it can be called that)
17. Peter Brooks, Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (New York: Vintage, 1985), p. 22. Brooks's book remains unsurpassed as an account of the multitude of strategies and economies that go into and are encoded by the narrative design of western texts ranging from fairy tales and Freud through the canonical novels of the 19th and 20th centuries. Brooks's actual phrase is more nuanced and complex than I suggest: "narrative has something to do with time-boundedness, and ... plot is the internal logic of the discourse of mortality."
18. Edgar Allan Poe, "The Masque of Red Death," in Selected Poetry & Prose of Edgar Allan Poe (New York: Random House, 1951), p. 229
19. William Blake, "London," in The Selected Poetry of Blake, ed. David V. Erdman (New York: New American Library, 1981), p. 144
20. Catherine Belling, "Microbiography and Resistance in the Human Culture Medium," Literature and Medicine 22 (2003): 84-101