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

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Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction “The Germ Theory Again”: Disease, Ideology, and the Possibilities of Biotic Life in the World of Antibiotic Purity
Disease in the Community and the Self-at-Risk
“We Drove in a Body to Science”: The Cultural Tides of Nineteenth-Century Scientific Inquiry
Germ Theory and the Pursuit of Purity
Chapter 1 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
Horrifying Tokens: Leaking Sores in A Journal of the Plague Year
A Hard Pill to Swallow: Risk Encounters, Inoculation, and Identity
Permeable Borders as a Mode of Survival
Empathetic Connection as a Prerequisite to Survival in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man
Narrator-Survivors: Embedding Life in Death
Chapter 2 “A Speculative Idea”: Childbed Fever, Early Germ Theory Debates, and (En)gendered Speculation in Henry James’s Washington Square
Radical Isolation: Subverting a Subversion
Of Speculation and Speculums
Ignasz Semmelweis and Statistical Assessment of Maternal Mortality Rates
Oliver Wendell Holmes: Pathos, Applied to Statistics
Mansplaining: Victorian Edition
Risk Encounters and Their Discontents
Catherine’s Paradoxical Transcendence
Chapter 3 Separation and Suffocation: Tuberculosis, Etiological Uncertainty, and Female Friendship in Women’s Fiction
“Sweet Dreams” and “Quiet Breathing”: The Changing Legacy of a Mystifying Killer
“Stifled Breath and Constricted Throat”: Tuberculosis and Homosociality in Jane Eyre
“Fighting for Breath”: Female Rivalry in East Lynne
“An Air of Hopeless Indifference”: Female Apathy in John Marchmont’s Legacy
“A Terrible Tension in the Air”: Female Bonds in The Story of a Modern Woman
Chapter 4 Tainted Love: Venereal Disease, Morality, and the Contagious Disease Acts in Ibsen’s Ghosts and Hardy’s The Woodlanders and Jude the Obscure
The Horror!
Risky Business: The Contagious Disease Acts in Context
“We Are All Ghosts . . . Abysmally Afraid of the Light”: The Impotency of Propriety in Ghosts
Out of the Shadows and into the Light: Inoculative Restitution in The Woodlanders
Enjoying Death in the Darkness: Fin-de-Siècle Pessimism in Jude the Obscure
“A Chaos of Principles—Groping in the Dark”
Let That Day Be Darkness
Chapter 5 Humanity’s Waste: Typhoid Fever, the Failure of Isolation, and the Development of Probiotics in Three Late-Century Works
Connectivity in an Age of Isolation
Moral Separatism as Abiotic in Grant Allen’s The Woman Who Did
Sewage, Flow, and Openness to Risk in Late-Century Typhoid Discourse
Finding “The Folk’s Fiend” in Ibsen’s En Folkefiende
Sewage as a Metaphor for Free Love in Hardy’s Final Novel
Conclusion Shuffling Within Our Mortal Coil
Notes
Works Cited
Index