Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature Invalid Lives /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Tankard, Alex (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Literary Disability Studies
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern-19th century.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.