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Consumption and Literature: The Making of the Romantic Disease

Consumption and Literature: The Making of the Romantic Disease

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0230020038
ISBN13: 9780230020030
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 31 2006
Pages: 243
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.60 Depth: 8.56
Language: English
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.

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