Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature Invalid Lives /

Until the nineteenth century, consumptives were depicted as sensitive, angelic beings whose purpose was to die beautifully and set an example of pious suffering - while, in reality, many people with tuberculosis faced unemployment, destitution, and an unlovely death in the workhouse. Focusing on the...

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Hlavní autor: Tankard, Alex (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
Edice:Literary Disability Studies
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Literature, Modern-19th century.
ISBN:9783319714462
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Obsah:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Medical and Social Influences on Consumptive Identity
  • 3. Victimhood and Death: Consumptive Stereotypes in Fiction and Nonfiction
  • 4. 'I hate everybody!': The Unnatural Consumptive in Wuthering Heights
  • 5. 'Too much misery in the world': Protest in Jude the Obscure (1895) and Ippolit's 'Necessary Explanation' in The Idiot (1869)
  • 6. Progress: Valid Invalid Identity in Ships that Pass in the Night (1893)
  • 7. Conclusion.

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