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1. Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion

   'Our Feverish Contact'

   By Allan Conrad Christensen

   Series: 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. Christensen dissects the cultural assumptions concerning disease, health, impurity and so on before exploring different perspectives on key themes such as...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge