Contagious metaphor. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peta Mitchell.
• Other Names: Mitchell, Peta
• Contents: Acknowledgements \ Introduction: Due Preparations \ 1. Contagious metaphor \ 2. Pestilence and poison winds: Literary contagions and the endurance of miasma theory \ 3. The French fin de siècle and the birth of social contagion theory \ 4. The contagion of example \ 5. Infectious ideas: Richard Dawkins, meme theory, and the politics of metaphor \ 6. Networks of contagion \ Bibliography \ Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Subjects: 808.032; Metaphor -- Social aspects; Metaphor in literature; Contagion (Social psychology)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441104212; 1441104216
• Related ISBNs: 9781472521620
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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