Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion : 'Our Feverish Contact' - Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Christensen, Allan Conrad

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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.

Christiensen 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 Dicken's Bleak House, Gaskell's Ruth, and Zola's Le Docteur Pascal.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780415360487
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	07 Apr 2005
DEWEY:	823.8093561
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	350
Weight:	690g
Height:	234mm
Width:	156mm
Spine width:	25mm