Kept From All Contagion - Germ Theory, Disease, Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth

Highlights connections between authors rarely studied together by exposing their shared counternarratives to germ theory's implicit suggestion of protection in isolation.

About the author

Kari Nixon is Assistant Professor of Literature at Whitworth University and the coeditor (with Lorenzo Servitje) of Endemic: Essays in Contagion Theory.

Product details

• Authors: Kari Nixon, Nixon Kari
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.01.2021
• EAN: 9781438478487
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-7848-7
• No. of pages: 274
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / History, Ireland, History of Medicine, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism