Infectious Hospitality and Communicative Disease in Kleist's "Der Findling": The Disease Inside and Out

¹Department of German, University College Cork, 141 O'Rahilly Building, Cork, T12 YN60 Ireland.

|August 25, 2020

Abstract:

This article explores contagion alongside and in relation to its ever-attendant metaphors, examining Heinrich von Kleist's short story "The Foundling", and finding here a particularly revealing concatenation of ideas of human contact, trade and infection.

Keywords:

Contagion Currency Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811)Human contact Metaphors of disease an infection Trade

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