Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature
Until the nineteenth century, consumptives were depicted as sensitive, angelic beings whose purpose was to die beautifully and set an example of pious suffering – while, in reality, many people with tuberculosis faced unemployment, destitution, and an unl
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ALEX TANKARD
Literary Disability Studies Series editors David Bolt Faculty of Education Liverpool Hope University Liverpool, UK Elizabeth Donaldson New York Institute of Technology New York, USA Julia Miele Rodas Bronx Community College City University of New York Montclair, NY, USA
Literary Disability Studies is the first book series dedicated to the exploration of literature and literary topics from a disability studies perspective. Focused on literary content and informed by disability theory, disability research, disability activism, and disability experience, the Palgrave Macmillan series provides a home for a growing body of advanced scholarship exploring the ways in which the literary imagination intersects with historical and contemporary attitudes toward disability. This cutting edge interdisciplinary work includes both monographs and edited collections (as well as focused research that does not fall within traditional monograph length). The series is supported by an editorial board of internationally- recognised literary scholars specialising in disability studies: Michael Bérubé, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature, Pennsylvania State University, USA; G. Thomas Couser, Professor of English Emeritus, Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, USA; Michael Davidson, University of California Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Diego, USA; Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Professor of Women’s Studies and English, Emory University, Atlanta, USA; Cynthia LewieckiWilson, Professor of English Emerita, Miami University, Ohio, USA. For information about submitting a Literary Disability Studies book proposal, please contact the series editors: David Bolt ([email protected]), Elizabeth J. Donaldson ([email protected]), and/or Julia Miele Rodas ([email protected]). More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14821
Alex Tankard
Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature Invalid Lives
Alex Tankard University of Chester Chester, UK
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