Author: Clark Lawlor
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0230020038
Consumption and Literature: The Making of the Romantic Disease
This fasincating new book seeks to explain an important and unanswered question: how consumption - a horrible disease - came to be the glamorous and artistic Romantic malady. Medical books Consumption and Literature. It argues that literary works (cultural media) are not secondary in our perceptions of disease, but are among the primary determinants of physical experience Medical books .
It argues that literary works (cultural media) are not secondary in our perceptions of disease, but are among the primary determinants of physical experience. In order to explain the apparent disparity between literary myth and bodily reality, Lawlor examines literature and medicine from the Renaissance to the late Victorian period, and covers a wide range of authors and characters, major and minor, British and American (Shakespeare, Sterne, Mary Tighe, Keats, Amelia Opie).
Medical Book Consumption and Literature
It argues that literary works (cultural media) are not secondary in our perceptions of disease, but are among the primary determinants of physical experience. In order to explain the apparent disparity between literary myth and bodily reality, Lawlor examines literature and medicine from the Renaissance to the late Victorian period, and covers a wide range of authors and characters, major and minor, British and American (Shakespeare, Sterne, Mary Tighe, Keats, Amelia Opie).
