Consumption and Literature The Making of the Romantic Disease

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

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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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