Paravictorianism: Mary Shelley and Viral Sovereignty.

This article revisits the 2006 diplomatic standoff between Indonesia and the World Health Organization over wild-type (or naturally occurring) viral flu samples in the context of the ongoing War on Terror, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a Romance whose imagination seems to have predicted, improbably, th...

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Publicado en:Victorian Studies Vol. 62; no. 3; pp. 446 - 460
Autor principal: Raza Kolb, Anjuli Fatima
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Publicado: Indiana University Press Spring2020
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