Contagion and the subject in contemporary American
speculative fiction

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Contagion and the subject in contemporary American speculative fiction

This thesis explores the relationship between the representation of contagion and those it affects offered by contemporary American speculative fiction and the ways in which this representative model has and continues to inform our understanding of real and actual pandemics. Over the past decade, th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Donner, Mathieu
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	Contagion Subjectivity American Literature Speculative Fiction Horror Science Fiction
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40336/

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