Allan Conrad Christensen

Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion (eBook, ePUB)

'Our Feverish Contact'

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134237333
• Artikelnr.: 38256625

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Note on citations
1. History as contagion
2. Providence amidst pestilence and fire
3. Swordsmen and needlewomen
4. Physicians
nurses and patients
5. Mothers
daughters and lovers
6. Writers and readers
7. Speakers
singers and listeners
Conclusion: money handlers and bookkeepers
Notes
Bibliography
Index