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Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth
century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states
both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of
attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what
present-day society can learn about depression from the
eighteenth-century experience.
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.
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).
Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth
century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states
both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of
attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what
present-day society can learn about depression from the
eighteenth-century experience.
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