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Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

Autor Allan Conrad Christensen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 feb 2013
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415836159
ISBN-10: 0415836158
Pagini: 1
Dimensiuni: 352 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature


Cuprins

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
8. Conclusion. Money Handlers and Bookkeepers

Notă biografică

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).