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03539aam a2200433 a 4500 001 7158FB36E99711E08F1A6CDA6AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20110928010149 008 100820s2011 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2010035791 020 $a 0521766672 (hardback : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780521766678 (hardback : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)658536581 040 $a DNLM/DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d NLM $d YDXCP $d CDX $d STF $d BWX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR149.T83 $b B97 2011 100 1 $a Byrne, Katherine, $d 1978- 245 1 $a Tuberculosis and the Victorian literary imagination / $c Katherine Byrne. 260 $a Cambridge, UK ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c New York : 300 $a x, 223 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; $v 74 504 $a Includes 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 $a 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 -- Phthisis mortality -- Medical publications on consumption -- Gender distribution of phthisis. 650 0 $a English literature $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Tuberculosis in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and medicine $z Great Britain $x History. 650 0 $a Communicable diseases in literature. 650 12 $a Literature, Modern $x history $z Great Britain. $2 [MeSH] 650 22 $a Culture $z Great Britain. $2 [MeSH] 650 22 $a History, 19th Century $z Great Britain. $2 [MeSH] 650 22 $a Medicine in Literature $z Great Britain. $2 [MeSH] 650 22 $a Tuberculosis, Pulmonary $x history $z Great Britain. $2 [MeSH] 830 0 $a Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; $v 74. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019011951.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230907012859.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7158FB36E99711E08F1A6CDA6AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search