A Theory of Spectral Rhetoric: Ghost Map
Pierce, Seth
2021-08-24 00:00:00
[The title for this chapter is inspired by Steven Johnson’s The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World. This book chronicles the Broad Street cholera outbreak of 1854, and how John Snow, aided by local clergyman Henry Whitehead, helped locate the mysterious origins of the disease. Their challenge was mapping “the invisible kingdom of viruses and bacteria,” which would come into conflict with entrenched theories in favor of miasma-borne illness and not waterborne illness, as well as superstition. Locals experienced “a kind of haunting” rooted in the suspicion that the dead from the Black Plague, buried underneath their city, was exacting revenge. These rumors, spread by the medium of gossip, fueled the pervasive feeling of “death hovering over your shoulder at every moment” in a city often thought to be a monstrous creature itself.]
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[The title for this chapter is inspired by Steven Johnson’s The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World. This book chronicles the Broad Street cholera outbreak of 1854, and how John Snow, aided by local clergyman Henry Whitehead, helped locate the mysterious origins of the disease. Their challenge was mapping “the invisible kingdom of viruses and bacteria,” which would come into conflict with entrenched theories in favor of miasma-borne illness and not waterborne illness, as well as superstition. Locals experienced “a kind of haunting” rooted in the suspicion that the dead from the Black Plague, buried underneath their city, was exacting revenge. These rumors, spread by the medium of gossip, fueled the pervasive feeling of “death hovering over your shoulder at every moment” in a city often thought to be a monstrous creature itself.]
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