Tuberculosis has played prominent and recurring roles in diverse fields. These include literature, as in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, set in a sanatorium; ...

The literary portrayal of tuberculosis from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth century contrasts with the scientific reality of the disease with the ...

TB dominated illness in literature throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with Charles Dickens, Samuel Richardson and Elizabeth Gaskell all putting ...

As a 'wasting disease,' tuberculosis was thought to enhance existing female beauty standards, such as pale, waxen features and a thin figure.

3 окт. 2017 г. · In its early stages, tuberculosis is characterized by a chronic cough, a lingering pallor, and a lack of appetite. It then degenerates into ...

Numerous literary celebrities were themselves tuberculous; others may be presumed to have been affected, but biography often hides the truth and before the days ...

17 мар. 2016 г. · There are characters in Dostoyevsky's novels Crime and Punishment and The Idiot who suffered from tuberculosis, and Thomas Mann's The Magic ...

10 апр. 2021 г. · Authors and poets like Charlotte Bronte and John Keats expressed their personal experience with Tuberculosis through their writings and poetry.

To do this, characters and scenes from the novels will be presented and discussed with the aid of various sources on tuberculosis, romanticising and the novels.

119,99 $ This book analyses fiction and nonfiction texts that demonstrate the social disabling of people with tuberculosis.