Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion
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Bleak House
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Ce Ne
Common Language
Contagious Phenomena
Contagious Principle
Danse Macabre
destroying
don
Don Abbondio
Draw Back
epidemic discourse
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Gods Terrible Voice
hospital history
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Humanity Suffering
Inexorable Form
La Peste
La Terre
Lady Dedlock
Le Docteur Pascal
literary health studies
locke
Lucia Di Lammermoor
Maria Stuarda
Medical Gaze
medical humanities
Miss Flite
Mrs Mason
nineteenth century disease narratives
Priestly Physicians
rodrigo
Ruth's Marriage
Ruth’s Marriage
social medicine
Solomon Eagle
Tom Thurnall
Victorian literature
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415360487
- Weight: 830g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 07 Apr 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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).
