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Consumption and Literature: The Making of the Romantic Disease
C. Lawlor
Consumption and Literature: The Making of the Romantic Disease
C. Lawlor
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.
252 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | October 31, 2006 |
ISBN13 | 9780230020030 |
Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 243 |
Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 17 mm · 399 g |
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