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Hardcover Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination Book

ISBN: 0521766672

ISBN13: 9780521766678

Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination

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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...

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