結核とヴィクトリア朝文学の想像力<br>Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-century Literature and Culture)

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結核とヴィクトリア朝文学の想像力
Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-century Literature and Culture)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 242 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780521766678
  • DDC分類 823.8093561

基本説明

Offers new readings of well-known canonical texts by writers such as Dickens, Gaskell and James, while also recovering lesser known texts by critically neglected writers.

Full Description

Tuberculosis was a widespread and deadly disease which devastated the British population in the nineteenth century: consequently it also had a huge impact upon public consciousness. This text explores the representations of tuberculosis in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Fears about gender roles, degeneration, national efficiency and sexual transgression all play their part in the portrayal of 'consumption', a disease which encompassed a variety of cultural associations. Through an examination of a range of Victorian texts, from well-known and popular novels by Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell to critically neglected works by Mrs Humphry Ward and Charles Reade, this work reveals the metaphors of illness which surrounded tuberculosis and the ways those metaphors were used in the fiction of the day. The book also contains detailed analysis of the substantial body of writing by nineteenth-century physicians which exists about this disease, and examines the complex relationship between medical 'fact' and literary fiction.

Contents

Introduction; 1. Nineteenth-century medical discourse on pulmonary phthisis; 2. Consuming the family economy: disease and capitalism in Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son and Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South; 3. The consumptive diathesis and the Victorian invalid in Mrs Humphry Ward's Eleanor; 4. 'There is beauty in woman's decay': the rise of the tubercular aesthetic; 5. Consumption and the Count: the pathological origins of Vampirism and Bram Stoker's Dracula; 6. 'A kind of intellectual advantage': phthisis and masculine identity in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady; Conclusion; Appendix A. Phthisis mortality; Appendix B. Medical publications on consumption; Appendix C. Gender distribution of phthisis.

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