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Consumption and Literature The Making of the Romantic Disease

Consumption and Literature The Making of the Romantic Disease

Description

This book seeks to explain how consumption - a horrible disease - came to be the glamorous and artistic Romantic malady. It tries to explain the disparity between literary myth and bodily reality, by examining literature and medicine from the Renaissance to the late Victorian period, covering a wide range of authors and characters.

Keywords

Literary CriticismSemiotics & TheorySocial ScienceHistoryEuropeMedievalModernMedical19th CenturyLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & ComparativeAnthropologyCultural & Social

2006Book

Author(s)Clark Lawlor

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK

ISBN9780230020030

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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