What was actually called "consumption" in the Victorian era is known as tuberculosis today, and its Real Life effects are not nearly as glamorous as Victorian ...

Thematically, the unnamed disease tends to act like pneumonia or tuberculosis, even in futuristic settings where those real diseases might be cured. Other times ...

In the past, clean air was used for the treatment of several illnesses, most notably tuberculosis. Tuberculosis has been a part of humanity for almost as ...

Differs from Victorian Novel Disease in that consumption/tuberculosis was a known disease at the time, it just got seriously cleaned up for that trope.

The Disease That Shall Not Be Named trope as used in popular culture. CANCER. LEPROSY. HERPES. TUBERCULOSIS. SYPHILIS. AIDS. EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA. There are …

Consumption (aka tuberculosis) is among the most common examples of diseases that were used as plot devices in Victorian novels, for example. The character may ...

The female lead is dying of tuberculosis. The couple lock lips a bazillion times. Not a single person seems the remotest bit worried about infection.

14 мар. 2020 г. · The “Incurable Cough of Death,” as the site TV Tropes dubs it, goes back hundreds of years in popular culture. Its origins are hard to ...

We've assembled a list of hacking tropes, including inaccurate GUI, high speed hacking, progress bars, technobabble posing as jargon, and unconventional ...

Interestingly, as Byrne highlights, the disease enabled Victorian writers to create textual tropes, whether in relation to purity or sexuality. Through ...