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Consumption and Literature : The Making of the Romantic Disease /

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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...

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Main Author: Lawlor, Clark (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Subjects:
Literature.
Cultural Theory.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
History of Medicine.
History of Medieval Europe.
Literary Theory.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Literature > Philosophy.
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
Literature, Modern.
Medicine > History.
Europe > History-476-1492.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 243 pages)
ISBN:9780230625747
DOI:10.1057/9780230625747