Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination

by Katherine Byrne

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521766672
• ISBN13: 9780521766678
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"