Readers in Cultural Criiticism

1st U.S. edition, book like new, clean and unmarked, dust jacket has slight shelfwear (scuffing) on rear panel and is now protected in a clear Brodart cover. By Jean Marie Goulemot. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1994. Publisher's statement: "This book is an original and illuminating study of erotic literature in eighteenth-century France. Approacing the erotic book as a literary genre, Goulemot suggests that in early modern France it could be found alongside accepted forms of literary practice.

This textbook both challenges and supports readers with a look at the diversity of the human condition; an examination into the field of cultural anthropology, its findings and its relevance; and the continuing role of cultural survival issues.

This edited book analyses how artists, authors, and cultural practitioners have responded to and represented episodes of epidemics/pandemics through history. Covering a broad range of notable epidemics/pandemics (black death, cholera, Influenza, AIDS, Ebola, COVID-19), the chapters examine the cultural representations of epidemics and pandemics in different contexts, periods, languages, media, and genres. Interdisciplinary in nature and drawing on perspectives from medicine, literature, medical anthropology, philosophy of medicine, and cultural theory, the book investigates and emphasizes the urgent need to reflect on past catastrophes caused by such outbreaks.