Consumption and Literature
Clark Lawlor
Consumptionhas famouslybeendescribed as the glamorous Romantic disease,an illness that EdgarAllanPoe - speaking through a fictional alter ego - wished all he loved could experience. To the surprise of a modernreader used tothinkin gof the contagiouskillercarried by coughs andsneezes,TB (tuberculosis), Poe portrays consumption as the diseaseof aneasyand beautiful death.
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Année:
2007
Editeur::
macmillan
Langue:
english
Pages:
251
ISBN 10:
0230020038
ISBN 13:
9780230020030
ISBN:
ISBN-13:978-0-230-02003-0 hardback ISBN-10:0-230-02003-8 hardback
Fichier:
PDF, 2.93 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2007