Chung-Jen Chen

Gebundenes Buch

Victorian Contagion

Risk and Social Control in the Victorian Literary Imagination

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9780367360641
• ISBN-10: 0367360640
• Artikelnr.: 57672388

Rezensionen

'Indeed, in what for me is the strongest part of Victorian Contagion, Chen deploys the methods of literary criticism to uncover the discursive maneuvers by which a secular work like Chadwick's 1842 Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain attains powerful moral effects.'

Sambudha Sen, Shiv Nadar University