Christopher Hutchinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5936685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Hutchinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Hutchinson |
| SIGNATURE | HUTCHINSON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Mississippi Oxford, Mississippi, United States |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Textual Infection
Scholarship on seventeenth-century concerns about print has highlighted how writers drew on diseases like syphilis as metaphors to criticize the spread of dangerous ideas through print. This essay argues that, in certain texts, the epidemiological threat of the printed text goes beyond the metaphorical and becomes literal. By examining the way Grimmelshausen presents syphilis in his 1669 novel, Courasche, and outlining how ideas of infection in t…
The Economics of Fortune in Schiller's “Der Ring des Polykrates”
This article discusses the reappearance of fortune as a literary motif at the turn of the nineteenth century in the context of the growing influence of Adam Smith's economic thought in Germany by looking at Schiller's 1797 ballad “Der Ring des Polykrates” as an example. The article's main argument is that fortune, long associated with incalculable fate, could find expression in this work as a herald of the uncontrollable regulatory forces and in‐…
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The Economics of Fortune in Schiller's “Der Ring des Polykrates”
This article discusses the reappearance of fortune as a literary motif at the turn of the nineteenth century in the context of the growing influence of Adam Smith's economic thought in Germany by looking at Schiller's 1797 ballad “Der Ring des Polykrates” as an example. The article's main argument is that fortune, long associated with incalculable fate, could find expression in this work as a herald of the uncontrollable regulatory forces and in‐…
Textual Infection
Scholarship on seventeenth-century concerns about print has highlighted how writers drew on diseases like syphilis as metaphors to criticize the spread of dangerous ideas through print. This essay argues that, in certain texts, the epidemiological threat of the printed text goes beyond the metaphorical and becomes literal. By examining the way Grimmelshausen presents syphilis in his 1669 novel, Courasche, and outlining how ideas of infection in t…
Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 works) · Ballad (1 works) · Consumer behavior in food and health (1 works)