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Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion

Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion, by Allan Conrad Christensen (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature, 2005), ISBN: 041536048X, 350 pp., £85.00.

Allen Conrad Christensen's analysis of nineteenth-century fictional narratives of contagion opens without preamble or introduction, launching directly into the 'fierce divisions and antagonisms' (1) that he believes are characteristic of the mid-Victorian period. Christensen's project is to reveal the pervasiveness of the metaphor of contagion within Victorian fiction, a metaphor that was used by the Victorians themselves to describe the intertwining of the many and varied influences of their specific historical moment ...

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