Kept from All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature Kept from All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature . By Karl Nixon. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. 10 + 263 pp., acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.95 (PB). ISBN: 978-1-4384-7848-7.

Abstract

"Kept from All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature." Terrae Incognitae, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2