Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature: Invalid Lives by Alex Tankard

Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature: Invalid Lives

Literary Disability Studies

Alex Tankard

238 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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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, an...

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