Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion

'Our Feverish Contact'
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-415-36048-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 708 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Christensen, Allan Conrad

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).