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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction
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Renaissance
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Romantic and Victorian
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Shortlisted for the 2008 ESSE Book Award in the field of Literatures in the English Language.
'The scholarship displayed in this book - both literary and medical - is immense. Over the past decade there has been increasing interest in the relationship between literature and disease [and] Lawlor's book is a superb contribution to this field of study, as it extends the literary study of consumption back into the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while significantly broadening this discussion beyond the major consumptive writers... to produce a veritable canon of consumptive writing. Lawlor's book is the best history of this literary disease that we have' - Professor Alan Bewell, Department of English, University of Toronto, Canada
'This book provides much more than the title promises. It explores interpretations of consumption (pulmonary tuberculosis) from the Renaissance to the Victorian period...The result is a finely balanced exploration of historical and literary conceptions of consumption from the viewpoints of patients, physicians, and onlookers...Summing Up: Recommended.' - A. E. McKim, Choice
'Clark Lawlor's scholarly account of 'consumption narratives' is to be recommended as a well-informed and engaging contribution to the burgeoning field of interdisciplinary studies addressing the literary representation of disease...Lawlor's fascinating study provides new readings of canonical literary texts, as well as alerting us to lesser-known sources including medical texts, journals and private correspondence to provide a valuable account of the evolving aesthetics of consumption.' - David E. Shuttleton, Journal of Literature and Science
'By uncovering the link between sensitivity and genius, Lawlor aims to explain that association.'
Judith Hawley, Eighteenth-Century studies, Vol.42, No. 1, 2008
'This is a book, like the consumptives it describes, in which a slender frame belies vital force and purpose.' - James Whitehead, BARS Bulletin & Review
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Consumption and Literature
Book Subtitle: The Making of the Romantic Disease
Authors: Clark Lawlor
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625747
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-02003-0Published: 31 October 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-28611-9Published: 01 January 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-62574-7Published: 31 October 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 243
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, History of Medieval Europe, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, History of Medicine, Nineteenth-Century Literature