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Kept from All Contagion : Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature /
"Kept from All Contagion explores the surprising social effects of germ theory in the late nineteenth-century. Connecting groups of others rarely studied in tandem by highlighting their shared interest in changing interpersonal relationships in the wake of germ theory, this book takes a surpris...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: "The germ theory again" : disease, ideology, and the possibilities of biotic life in the world of antibiotic purity
- Keep bleeding : plague, vaccination debates, and the necessity of leaky boundaries in Defoe's Journal of the plague year and Shelley's The last man
- "A speculative idea" : childbed fever, early germ theory debates, and (en)gendered speculation in Henry James's Washington Square
- Separation and suffocation : tuberculosis, etiological uncertainty, and female friendship in women's fiction
- Tainted love : venereal disease, morality, and the contagious disease acts in Ibsen's Ghosts and Hardy's The woodlanders and Jude the obscure
- Humanity's waste : typhoid fever, the failure of isolation, and the development of probiotics in three late-century works
- Conclusion: Shuffling within our mortal coil : concluding remarks.