[BOOK][B] Consumption and literature: The making of the romantic disease
C Lawlor - 2006 - books.google.com
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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.
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 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.
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