This book examines representations of tuberculosis in Victorian fiction, giving insights into how society viewed this disease and its sufferers.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Katherine Byrne is Lecturer in English at the University of Ulster.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. Nineteenth-century medical discourse on pulmonary phthisis 2. Consuming the family economy: disease and capitalism in Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son and Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South 3. The consumptive diathesis and the Victorian invalid in Mrs Humphry Ward's Eleanor 4. 'There is beauty in woman's decay': the rise of the tubercular aesthetic 5. Consumption and the Count: the pathological origins of Vampirism and Bram Stoker's Dracula 6. 'A kind of intellectual advantage': phthisis and masculine identity in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady Conclusion Appendix A. Phthisis mortality Appendix B. Medical publications on consumption Appendix C. Gender distribution of phthisis.
Introduction 1. Nineteenth-century medical discourse on pulmonary phthisis 2. Consuming the family economy: disease and capitalism in Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son and Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South 3. The consumptive diathesis and the Victorian invalid in Mrs Humphry Ward's Eleanor 4. 'There is beauty in woman's decay': the rise of the tubercular aesthetic 5. Consumption and the Count: the pathological origins of Vampirism and Bram Stoker's Dracula 6. 'A kind of intellectual advantage': phthisis and masculine identity in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady Conclusion Appendix A. Phthisis mortality Appendix B. Medical publications on consumption Appendix C. Gender distribution of phthisis.
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