Margot Szarke, L. M. Porter, Emily Paterson-Morgan, Ji Eun Hong, David Evans, Mendel Péladeau-Houle, Michael Rosenfeld, C. Robison, John D'amico
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Abstract:This essay explores nineteenth-century French texts that depict Jenner's vaccine, highlighting the ways in which literature and print culture played a significant role in vaccination's diffusion by conveying, challenging, and even mocking the impact of the new preventative treatment and its scientific rationale. By examining accounts of the vaccine found in medical treatises, popular journalism, theatrical parody, and poetry, this essay argues that Jenner's discovery crucially provoked social commentary, stylistic experimentation, and meta-discourse as writers on both sides of the issue specifically attended to the mechanics of thought and the usage of rhetorical devices. This essay thus identifies how the vaccine was mobilized by French writers to discuss not only public health and social well-being, but also human understanding and forms of expression.
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Nineteenth-Century French Studies provides scholars and students with the opportunity to examine new trends, review promising research findings, and become better acquainted with professional developments in the field. Scholarly articles on all aspects of nineteenth-century French literature and criticism are invited. Published articles are peer reviewed to ensure scholarly integrity. This journal has an extensive book review section covering a variety of disciplines. Nineteenth-Century French Studies is published twice a year in two double issues, fall/winter and spring/summer.
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