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05505aam a2200649 i 4500 001 5C13C1EADCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 190812s2020 nyua b s001 0 eng c 010 $a 2019027881 020 $a 1438478496 020 $a 9781438478494 020 $a 1438478488 020 $a 9781438478487 035 $a (OCoLC)1114279027 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d J9U $d OCLCO $d BDF $d NLM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN56.D56 $b N59 2020 060 00 $a WZ 330 082 00 $a 809/.933561 $2 23 100 1 $a Nixon, Kari, $e author. 245 10 $a Kept from all contagion : $b germ theory, disease, and the dilemma of human contact in late nineteenth-century literature / $c Kari Nixon. 264 1 $a Albany : $b State University of New York Press, $c [2020] 300 $a x, 263 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "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 surprising and refreshing stance on studies in medicine and literature. Each chapter focuses on a different disease, discussing the different social policies or dilemmas that arose from new understandings in the 1860s-90s that these diseases were contagious. The chapters pair these sociohistorical considerations with robust literary analyses that assess the ways authors as diverse as Thomas Hardy, Henrik Ibsen, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, among others, grappled with these ideas and their various impacts upon different human relationships -- marital, filial, and social. Through the trifocal structure of each chapter (microbial, relational, and socio-political), the book excavates previously overlooked connections between such literary texts that insist upon the life-giving importance of community engagement -- the very thing that seemed threatening in the wake of germ theory's revelations. Germ theory seemed to promote self-protection via isolation; the authors covered in Kept from All Contagion resist such tacit biopolitical implications and instead, as Nixon shows, repeatedly demonstrate vitalizing interpersonal interactions in spite of -- and often because of -- their contamination with disease, thus completely upending both the ways Victorians and present-day literary scholars have tended to portray and interpret purity"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Communicable diseases in literature. 650 0 $a Germ theory of disease $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Literature and medicine $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Medicine in literature. 650 0 $a Literature, Modern $y 19th century. 650 12 $a Medicine in Literature $x history. $0 https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008513Q000266 650 12 $a Communicable Diseases $x history. $0 https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003141Q000266 650 22 $a Germ Theory of Disease $x history. $0 https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D060755Q000266 650 22 $a Socioeconomic Factors $x history. $0 https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012959Q000266 650 22 $a Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice. $0 https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007722 650 22 $a History, 19th Century. $0 https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D049672 650 7 $a Communicable diseases in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00869941 650 7 $a Germ theory of disease. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00941282 650 7 $a Literature and medicine. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000080 650 7 $a Literature, Modern. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000172 650 7 $a Medicine in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01015167 650 7 $a Communicable diseases in literature. $2 nli 650 7 $a Germ theory of disease $x History $y 19th century. $2 nli 650 7 $a Literature and medicine $x History $y 19th century. $2 nli 650 7 $a Medicine in literature. $2 nli 650 7 $a Literature, Modern $y 19th century. $2 nli 650 7 $0 (FrPBN)11996647 $a Maladies infectieuses $x Dans la litterature. $0 (FrPBN)11996647 $x Dans la litterature. $2 ram 650 7 $0 (FrPBN)11975999 $a Litterature et medecine $0 (FrPBN)11975999 $y 19e siecle. $2 ram 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117015824.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5C13C1EADCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search