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LEADER: 02943cam a22003134a 4500
001 2010035791
003 DLC
005 20110627112706.0
008 100820s2011 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010035791
020 $a9780521766678 (hardback : alk. paper)
035 $a(DNLM)101538775
040 $aDNLM/DLC$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPR149.T83$bB97 2011
082 00 $a820.9/3561$222
100 1 $aByrne, Katherine,$d1978-
245 10 $aTuberculosis and the Victorian literary imagination /$cKatherine Byrne.
260 $aCambridge :$bCambridge University Press,$c2011.
300 $ax, 223 p. :$bill ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;$v74
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 192-221) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 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.
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.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aTuberculosis in literature.
650 0 $aLiterature and medicine$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
650 0 $aCommunicable diseases in literature.
830 0 $aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;$v74.