Victorian Contagion: Risk and Social Control in the Victorian Literary Imagination (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature) - Tapa dura

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Chen, Chung-jen

 
9780367360641: Victorian Contagion: Risk and Social Control in the Victorian Literary Imagination (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)
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ISBN 10: 0367360640 ISBN 13: 9780367360641
Editorial: Routledge, 2019

Sinopsis

Victorian Contagion: Risk and Social Control in the Victorian Literary Imagination examines the literary and cultural production of contagion in the Victorian era and the way that production participated in a moral economy of surveillance and control. In this book, I attempt to make sense of how the discursive practice of contagion governed the interactions and correlations between medical science, literary creation, and cultural imagination. Victorians dealt with the menace of contagion by theorizing a working motto in claiming the goodness and godliness in cleanliness which was theorized, realized, and radicalized both through practice and imagination. The Victorian discourse around cleanliness and contagion, including all its treatments and preventions, developed into a culture of medicalization, a perception of surveillance, a politics of health, an economy of morality, and a way of thinking. This book is an attempt to understands the literary and cultural elements which contributed to fear and anticipation of contagion, and to explain why and how these elements still matter to us today.

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Chung-jen Chen is an associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He holds a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from National Taiwan Normal University (2009). He was a visiting scholar in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC) at Harvard University (2017-18). He was the recipient of the Award for Innovative Research for Young Scholars from the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship (2015) and the Golden Tripod Award of Taiwan (2014) for his book in Mandarin, Empire, Medicine and 19th-Century English Literature. His research interests include nineteenth-century British novels, contemporary British fiction, and interdisciplinary studies in medicine and literature.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2019
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0367360640
ISBN 13 
9780367360641
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
332
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