Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature Invalid Lives /
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| Summary: | IX, 238 p. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Series: | Literary Disability Studies,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71446-2 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 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.