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- Title
Staying Calm and Seizing the Iron: Contagion, Fermentation, and the Management of the Rabies Threat in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley.
- Authors
WAUGH, JO
- Abstract
A literary criticism of the English novel "Shirley" by Charlotte Brontë is presented. The author discusses the theme of rabies and the contagion theory of disease as a reflection of the state of unrest in British society, and the need to protect one's person against the spread of contagion.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; SHIRLEY (Book); BRONTE, Charlotte, 1816-1855; RABIES in literature; HUMAN body in literature; COMMUNICABLE diseases in literature; LITERATURE &; society; 19TH century British history
- Publication
Victorian Review, 2016, Vol 42, Issue 1, p149
- ISSN
0848-1512
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vcr.2016.0044