Titlebook: Consumption and Literature; The Making of the Ro Clark Lawlor Book 2007 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007

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Introductionwished all he loved could experience. To the surprise of a modern reader used to thinking of the contagious killer carried by coughs and sneezes, TB (tuberculosis), Poe portrays consumption as the disease of an easy and beautiful death. In the Romantic formulation, consumption was aestheticised in a

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‘The Genteel, Linear, Consumptive Make’: The Disease of Sensibility and the Sentimentalso the glamorous sign of female beauty. Thomas Beddoes, maverick but fashionable physician and husband of novelist Maria Edgeworth’s sister, complains that the female boarding school ‘has greatly contributed to multiply the genteel, linear, consumptive make, now or lately so much in request’.. Mothe

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‘A consuming malady and a consuming mistress’: Consumptive Masculinity and Sensibilityy? It is true that masculine consumptions had the medicine of sensibility and the nerves in common with feminine ones, but there were significant differences in the representations and experiences of those consumptions. Masculine illness was structured by different social and personal expectations,

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Wasting Poetsof historical and literary criticism, the same cannot be said for the time of archetypal consumptive genii such as Keats, the Bront?s, and a host of other writers who suffered from the disease. True, there have been many studies of consumption, and many individual studies of writers who happen to ha

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‘Seeming delicately slim’: Consumed and Consuming Womenarketability and personal benefit (however qualified) from the disease, but surely women were largely debarred from the higher echelons of the creative sphere? Trotter’s comment on the perverse behaviour of women in wishing to look seductively ill suggests that the eighteenth-century fashion of sick