Consumption and Literature: The Making of the Romantic Disease
MIA KARTS BOOKS
Book details
- Language
- English
- Category
- Criticism & Theory
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-10
- 0230020038
- Vendor: Mia Karts
Consumption and Literature: The Making of the Romantic Disease
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ISBN: 0230020038
Author: Lawlor, C.
Condition: New
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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