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...
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Queen Mary, University of London
2001
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