Romantic Consumption: The Paradox of Fashionable Breath

Clark Lawlor

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Romantic Consumption: The Paradox of Fashionable Breath

Clark Lawlor^*

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine
Subtitle of host publication	Classical to Contemporary
Editors	David Fuller, Corinne Saunders, Jane Macnaughton
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	14
Pages	285-304
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030744434
ISBN (Print)	9783030744427, 9783030744458
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74443-4_14
Publication status	Published - 2021

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Name	Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
ISSN (Print)	2634-6435
ISSN (Electronic)	2634-6443

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Romantic Consumption: The Paradox of Fashionable Breath. / Lawlor, Clark.
The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary. ed. / David Fuller; Corinne Saunders; Jane Macnaughton. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. p. 285-304 (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine).

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