Consumption and Literature - The Making of the Romantic Disease (Hardcover)

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).

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2006
First published:	2007
Authors:	C Lawlor
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	243
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-02003-0
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-230-02003-8
Barcode:	9780230020030

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