SOURCE: "Plague, Physician, Writer, and the Poison Damsel," in To Blight with Plague: Studies in a Literary Theme, New York University Press, 1992, pp. 157-83.
In the following excerpt, Leavy analyzes literary works that closely associate women with disease.
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