Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion: 'Our Feverish Contact': 1 (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)

Allan Conrad Christensen

ISBN 10: 041536048X / ISBN 13: 9780415360487

Published by Routledge 2005-04-07, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion: 'Our Feverish Contact': 1 (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)
• Publisher: Routledge 2005-04-07
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041536048X
• ISBN 13: 9780415360487
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Allan Conrad Christensen is Professor of English at John Cabot University in Rome. He is the author of Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Fiction of New Regions (1976) and a book on the Italian Victorian novelist Giovanni Ruffini (1996).