Consumption and Literature The Making of the Romantic Disease

Name: Consumption and Literature The Making of the Romantic Disease
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ISBN: 9780230020030

ISBN-10: 0230020038

ISBN-13: 9780230020030

Edition: 2007

Authors: Clark Lawlor

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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 determinants of physical experience. In order to explain the apparent disparity between literary myth and bodily reality, Lawlor examines literature and medicine from the Renaissance to the late Victorian period, and covers a wide range of authors and characters, major and minor, British and American (Shakespeare, Sterne, Mary Tighe, Keats, Amelia Opie).

Book details

List price: $119.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 10/31/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 243
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Renaissance



Consumption and Love Melancholy; The Renaissance Tradition



The 'Golden Disease': Early Modern Religious Consumptions



Enlightenment



'The genteel, linear, consumptive make': The Disease of Sensibility and the Sentimental



'A consuming malady and a consuming mistress': Consumptive Masculinity and Sensibility



Romantic and Victorian



Wasting Poets



'Seeming delicately slim': Consumed and Consuming Women



Meeting Keats in Heaven: David Gray and the Romantic Legacy


Conclusion: Germ Theory and After


Notes


Bibliography


Index