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Consumption and Literature PDF

251 Pages·2007·2.9283 MB·other
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Consumption has famously been described as the glamorous Romantic disease, an illness that Edgar Allan Poe - speaking through a fictional alter ego - wished all he loved could experience. To the surprise of a modern reader used to thinkin g of the contagious killer carried by coughs and sneezes, TB (tuberculosis), Poe portrays consumption as the disease of an easy and beautiful death. 
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