C. Lawlor

This book seeks to explain how consumption - a horrible disease - came to be the glamorous and artistic Romantic malady. It tries to explain the disparity between literary myth and bodily reality, by examining literature and medicine from the Renaissance to the late Victorian period, covering a wide range of authors and characters.

The Making of the Romantic Disease

Consumption and Literature

Leigh Wetherall Dickson

A. Ingram

S. Sim

R. Terry

J. Baker

Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what present-day society can learn about depression from the eighteenth-century experience.

Before Depression, 1660-1800

Melancholy Experience in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century

C. Lawlor

Books

Your next favorite book is out there