Consumption and Literature: The Making of the Romantic Disease

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.

Author: C. Lawlor
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/01/2007
Pages: 243
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.56h x 6.60w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780230020030

About the Author
CLARK LAWLOR is Reader in English at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He has edited (with Akihito Suzuki) Sciences of Body and Mind in Literature and Science, 1660-1834 (Pickering and Chatto, 2003), and has written many scholarly articles on literature, science and medicine.