TY - CHAP
T1 - Romantic Consumption
T2 - The Paradox of Fashionable Breath
AU - Lawlor, Clark
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The tragic disease of consumption/tuberculosis is, perhaps notoriously, a central disease of literary and artistic international Romanticism, as well as having a profound influence in wider society. Lawlor’s essay analyses the role that breath played in this phenomenon: how could breath and breathlessness possibly contribute to the valorisation of such a horrible illness? Using literary and medical works, this analysis demonstrates that the ‘reality’ (albeit variable) of consumptive breath was often overridden, overwritten, or reframed, by cultural discourses which included religious and classical concepts of breath, new and old medical models, gender and social rank.
AB - The tragic disease of consumption/tuberculosis is, perhaps notoriously, a central disease of literary and artistic international Romanticism, as well as having a profound influence in wider society. Lawlor’s essay analyses the role that breath played in this phenomenon: how could breath and breathlessness possibly contribute to the valorisation of such a horrible illness? Using literary and medical works, this analysis demonstrates that the ‘reality’ (albeit variable) of consumptive breath was often overridden, overwritten, or reframed, by cultural discourses which included religious and classical concepts of breath, new and old medical models, gender and social rank.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85117146835&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-74443-4_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-74443-4_14
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85117146835
SN - 9783030744427
SN - 9783030744458
T3 - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
SP - 285
EP - 304
BT - The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine
A2 - Fuller, David
A2 - Saunders, Corinne
A2 - Macnaughton, Jane
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Cham, Switzerland
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