Consumption and Literature The Making of the Romantic Disease

by Lawlor, Clark

• ISBN13: 9780230020030
• ISBN10: 0230020038
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-09
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book analyzes literary representations to explain how consumption, a killer disease, came to be the glamorous illnesss of the Romantic era.

Author Biography

CLARK LAWLOR is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He has edited (with Akihito Suzuki) Sciences of Body and Mind in Literature and Sciences, 1660-1834, vol. 2 (2003), and has written many scholarly articles on literature, science and medicine.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Renaissance
Consumption and Love Melancholy; The Renaissance Tradition	p. 15
The 'Golden Disease': Early Modern Religious Consumptions	p. 28
Enlightenment
'The genteel, linear, consumptive make': The Disease of Sensibility and the Sentimental	p. 43
'A consuming malady and a consuming mistress': Consumptive Masculinity and Sensibility	p. 85
Romantic and Victorian
Wasting Poets	p. 111
'Seeming delicately slim': Consumed and Consuming Women	p. 153
Meeting Keats in Heaven: David Gray and the Romantic Legacy	p. 171
Conclusion: Germ Theory and After	p. 186
Notes	p. 191
Bibliography	p. 217
Index	p. 233
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