Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination

By:

Katherine Byrne

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

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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.

Author Biography:

Katherine Byrne is Lecturer in English at the University of Ulster.

Release date Australia

November 21st, 2013

Author

Katherine Byrne

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

1 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

242

Series

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Dimensions

152x229x13

ISBN-13

9781107672802

Product ID

21517001

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