Infectious hospitality and communicative disease in Kleist's "Der Findling": The disease inside and out

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2020-07-20
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MagShamhráin, Rachel
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-020-00497-0
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This article explores contagion alongside and in relation to its ever-attendant metaphors, examining Heinrich von Kleist's short story "The Foundling", and finding here a particularly revealing concatenation of ideas of human contact, trade and infection.
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Contagion , Currency , Human contact , Trade , Metaphors of disease and infection , Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811)
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MagShamhráin, R. (2020) 'Infectious hospitality and communicative disease in Kleist's Der Findling: The disease inside and out', Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-020-00497-0
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© 2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Society. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-020-00497-0