{"product_id":"the-smallpox-report-vaccination-and-the-romantic-illness-narrative-9781487546595","title":"The Smallpox Report: Vaccination and the Romantic Illness Narrative","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Fuson Wang\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Gothic \u0026amp; Romance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination has become synonymous with an opaque biopower that legislates compulsory immunization at a distance. Contemporary illness narratives have become outlets for distrust, misinformation, reckless denialism, and selfish noncompliance. In \u003ci\u003eThe Smallpox Report\u003c\/i\u003e, Fuson Wang rewinds this contemporary impasse between physician and patient back to the Romantic-era origins of vaccination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book offers a literary-historical account of smallpox vaccination, contending that the disease's eventual eradication in 1980 was as much a triumph of the literary imagination as it was an achievement of medical Enlightenment science. Wang traces our modern pandemic-era crisis of vaccine hesitancy back to Edward Jenner's publication of his treatise on vaccination in 1798, the first rumblings of an anti-vaccination movement, and vaccination's formative literary history that included authors such as William Wordsworth, William Blake, John Keats, Mary Shelley, and Arthur Conan Doyle. The book concludes with a re-examination of the current deeply contentious public discourse about vaccines that has arisen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. By recovering the surprisingly literary genres of Romantic-era medical writing, \u003ci\u003eThe Smallpox Report\u003c\/i\u003e models a new literary historical perspective on our own crises of vaccine refusal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47571937296535,"sku":"9781487546595","price":7838.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781487546595.webp?v=1774888556","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-smallpox-report-vaccination-and-the-romantic-illness-narrative-9781487546595","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}