Kept from All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature

by Kari Nixon

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438478488
• ISBN13: 9781438478487
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"