Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion : 'Our Feverish Contact'

by Allan Conrad Christensen

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

ISBN-10 0415836158

ISBN-13 9780415836159

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 16th, 2013

Print length 360 Pages

Weight 528 grams

Dimensions 23.40 x 35.20 x 2.00 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: general

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This intriguing book examines the ways 'contagion' or disease inform and shape a wide variety of nineteenth century texts and contexts.

This intriguing book examines the ways contagion - or disease - inform and shape a wide variety of nineteenth century texts and contexts.

Christensen dissects the cultural assumptions concerning disease, health, impurity and so on before exploring different perspectives on key themes such as plague, nursing and the hospital environment and focusing on certain key texts including Dickens''s Bleak House, Gaskell''s Ruth, and Zola''s Le Docteur Pascal.

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