دانلود کتاب Plague Image And Imagination From Medieval To Modern Times

فهرست مطالب :

Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction: Imaging and Imagining Plague
Chapter 2: Why Is Black Death Black? European Gothic Imaginaries of ‘Oriental’ Plague
Introduction
Overview: ‘Black’ Plague Before the Modern Era
Making the Black Death Black
The Black Death and Gothic Epidemiology
The Black Death and Epidemiological Orientalism
The Antihistorical Legacy of Gothic Plague
Chapter 3: Painting the Plague, 1250–1630
Introduction
The Augsburg Pamplona Bible: Plague as an Unknowable Scourge
The Morgan Library’s Crusader Bible: A Divine Disease with Material Causes
A Public Image of Plague in the Wake of the Black Death
Pitying Plague Victims in the Age of Renaissance Humanism
Explicit Symptomology in Late Renaissance Images
Baroque Plague Art to Stay Healthy
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Pesthouse Imaginaries
Plague, Re-seen from Above
Verona’s Ill-fated Lazaretto
Lazaretto Landscapes, Plagued Terrains
Painting Pesthouses and Plaguescapes
Writing Contagion into Plague History
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Picturing Plague: Photography, Pestilence and Cremation in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century India
Plague as Image
Burning the Dead
Indian Photography and the Hindu Dead
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Reflexive Gaze and Constructed Meanings: Photographs of Plague Hospitals in Colonial Bombay
Introduction: Towards ‘Visual Literacy’ in Plague
What Can Hospital Photographs Offer?
The Photographs and Their Questionable Authorship
Negotiating Gender and Age
From Ball Room to Slaughterhouse
Publicised Convalescence and the Photographable Other
Conclusion
Chapter 7: Plague in India: Contagion, Quarantine, and the Transmission of Scientific Knowledge
Chapter 8: Bamboo Dwellers: Plague, Photography, and the House in Colonial Java
Plague in Java
The Plague House
Colonising the Home
Conclusion
Chapter 9: Making a Model Plague: Paper Technologies and Epidemiological Casuistry in the Early Twentieth Century
Introduction
An Epidemiological Paper Technology—the Plague Report
The Report on Plague in Queensland, 1900–1907
The Casuistry of Plague
Individual Liability
Place Infections
Rats and Humans—Making a Model Plague
Conclusion
Chapter 10: Ethnographic Images of the Plague: Outbreak and the Landscape of Memory in Madagascar
Official and Unofficial Representations of the Plague
The Plague Pit as Key Image
The Plague Pit, 2016
The Plague Pit, 2017
Conclusion
Index