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050 00 $aPR149.T83$bB97 2011
060 00 $aWZ 330
082 00 $a820.9/3561$222
100 1 $aByrne, Katherine,$d1978-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010183395
245 10 $aTuberculosis and the Victorian literary imagination /$cKatherine Byrne.
260 $aCambridge, UK,$cNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2011.
300 $aviii, 223 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;$v74
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"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 a variety of cultural associations. Through an examination of a range of Victorian texts, from well-known and popular novels by Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell to critically neglected works by Mrs Humphry Ward and Charles Reade, this work reveals the metaphors of illness which surrounded tuberculosis and the ways those metaphors were used in the fiction of the day. The book also contains detailed analysis of the substantial body of writing by nineteenth-century physicians which exists about this disease, and examines the complex relationship between medical 'fact' and literary fiction"--Provided by publisher.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Nineteenth-century medical discourse on tuberculosis -- Consuming the family economy: disease and capitalism in Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son and Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South -- The consumptive diathesis and the Victorian invalid in Mrs Humphry Ward's Eleanor -- 'There is beauty in woman's decay': the rise of the tubercular aesthetic -- Consumption and the Count: the pathological origins of Vampirism and Bram Stoker's Dracula -- 'A kind of intellectual advantage': phthisis and masculine identity in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady -- Conclusion: 'A truly modern illness: into the twentieth century and beyond -- Appendix A. Phthisis mortality -- Appendix B. Medical publications on consumption -- Appendix C. Gender distribution of phthisis.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043833
650 0 $aTuberculosis in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008845
650 0 $aLiterature and medicine$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
650 0 $aCommunicable diseases in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003647
650 12 $aLiterature, Modern$xhistory.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008093Q000266
650 22 $aCulture.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003469
650 22 $aHistory, 19th Century.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D049672
650 22 $aMedicine in Literature.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008513
650 22 $aTuberculosis, Pulmonary$xhistory.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014397Q000266
651 2 $aUnited Kingdom.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113
830 0 $aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;$v74.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93035018
852 0 $bglx$hPR149.T83$iB97 2011