THE FORMATION OF POISONS BY MICRO-ORGANISMS: GERM THEORY STUDY

By DANIEL JONES

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION “THE GERM THEORY AGAIN”: DISEASE, IDEOLOGY, AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF BIOTIC LIFE IN THE WORLD OF ANTIBIOTIC PURITY CHAPTER KEEP BLEEDING: PLAGUE, VACCINATION DEBATES, AND THE NECESSITY OF LEAKY BOUNDARIES IN DEFOE’S JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR AND SHELLEY’S THE LAST MAN “A SPECULATIVE IDEA”: CHILDBED FEVER, EARLY GERM THEORY DEBATES, AND (EN)GENDERED SPECULATION IN HENRY JAMES’S WASHINGTON SQUARE SEPARATION AND SUFFOCATION: TUBERCULOSIS, ETIOLOGICAL UNCERTAINTY, AND FEMALE FRIENDSHIP IN WOMEN’S FICTION TAINTED LOVE: VENEREAL DISEASE, MORALITY, AND THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASE ACTS IN IBSEN’S GHOSTS AND HARDY’S THE WOODLANDERS AND JUDE THE OBSCURE HUMANITY’S WASTE: TYPHOID FEVER, THE FAILURE OF ISOLATION, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROBIOTICS IN THREE LATE-CENTURY WORKS CONCLUSION SHUFFLING WITHIN OUR MORTAL COIL NOTES WORKS CITED