Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 16 December 2013
- ISBN 9780415836159
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages360 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 498 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This intriguing book examines the ways 'contagion' or disease inform and shape a wide variety of nineteenth century texts and contexts.
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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.
Christensen 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 Dickens's Bleak House, Gaskell's Ruth, and Zola's Le Docteur Pascal.
"Christensen's exploration... is admirably traced. His analyses are lucid and sensitive and his ability to weave the apparently disaparate conerns of a cross-cultural discourse revolving around medicine and literature into a coherent and persuasive discourse is arresting." - Renzo D'Agnillo, The Gaskell Society Journal
"...a valuable contribution to the literature of gender in the nineteenth century and offersa striking and original parallel to work on gender and nervous disease." - Martin Willis, Gothic Studies
"The introductory chapter in itself should be required reading for students of the nineteenth century." - Robert Kiely, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
"[T]his is an insightful and provocative study... Christensen's book is interesting in large measure because of his zest for the topic, which is itself contagious." - Jill L. Matus, Victorian Studies
"[I]t is a book that cannot be absent from the library of a Victorian scholar that wishes to possess a framework for the strong socio-cultural and literary connotations that the thematic of contagion poses on various levels." - Francesco Marroni, Rivista di Letterature moderne e comparate
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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
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