Consumptive death in Victorian literature, 1830-1880
Victorian medical men, writers, relatives of the dying and consumptive sufferers themselves seized on the narrative potential of representations of the disease in a variety of ways. I argue that both medical and lay writers subscribed to a common set of beliefs about the disease and that medical kno...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Published: |
Queen Mary, University of London
2001
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270940 |