Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination

Abstract

Introduction 1. Nineteenth-century medical discourse on pulmonary phthisis 2. Consuming the family economy: disease and capitalism in Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son and Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South 3. The consumptive diathesis and the Victorian invalid in Mrs Humphry Ward's Eleanor 4. 'There is beauty in woman's decay': the rise of the tubercular aesthetic 5. Consumption and the Count: the pathological origins of Vampirism and Bram Stoker's Dracula 6. 'A kind of intellectual advantage': phthisis and masculine identity in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady Conclusion Appendix A. Phthisis mortality Appendix B. Medical publications on consumption Appendix C. Gender distribution of phthisis.

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