Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature
Alex Tankard
Springer International Publishing AG, 2019
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Until the nineteenth century, consumptives were depicted as sensitive, angelic beings whose purpose was to die beautifully and set an example of pious suffering – while, in reality, many people with tuberculosis faced unemployment, destitution, and an unlovely death in the workhouse.
- ISBN-13
- 9783319890746
- ISBN-10
- 3319890743
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Year
- 2019
- Publication date
- 2019-06-04
- Pages
- 238
- Dimensions
- 210x148x