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Nineteenth-century narratives of contagion : 'our feverish contact' / Allan Conrad Christensen.

Smallpox and the literary imagination, 1660-1820 / David E. Shuttleton.

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Communicable diseases in literature

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Nineteenth-century narratives of contagion : 'our feverish contact' / Allan Conrad Christensen.

Smallpox and the literary imagination, 1660-1820 / David E. Shuttleton.