Consumption and Literature
Literature and medicine
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Romanticism, great britain
Health and Fitness
Medicine in Literature
English literature, history and criticism
History of Medicine
Romanticism
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
European
LITERARY CRITICISM
English literature
History and criticism
History
This fasincating new book seeks to explain an important and unanswered question: how consumption - a horrible disease - came to be the glamorous and artistic Romantic malady. It argues that literary works (cultural media) are not secondary in our perceptions of disease, but are among the primary det…
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