Tuberculosis was a widespread and deadly disease which devastated
the British population in the nineteenth century: consequently it
also had a huge impact upon public consciousness. This text
explores the representations of tuberculosis in nineteenth-century
literature and culture. Fears about gender roles, degeneration,
national efficiency and sexual transgression all play their part in
the portrayal of 'consumption', a disease which encompassed a
variety of cultural associations. Through an examination of a range
of Victorian texts, from well-known and popular novels by Charles
Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell to critically neglected works by Mrs
Humphry Ward and Charles Reade, this work reveals the metaphors of
illness which surrounded tuberculosis and the ways those metaphors
were used in the fiction of the day. The book also contains
detailed analysis of the substantial body of writing by
nineteenth-century physicians which exists about this disease, and
examines the complex relationship between medical 'fact' and
literary fiction.
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