Consumption and Literature: The Making of the Romantic Disease (2007)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2007
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780230625747
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780230020030
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
- Date of Addition:
- 12/12/20
- Copyrighted By:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Medicine
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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