Consumption and Literature

1. Introduction
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Part I. Renaissance

2. Consumption and Love Melancholy: The Renaissance Tradition
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3. The ‘Golden Disease’: Early Modern Religious Consumptions
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Part II. Enlightenment

4. ‘The Genteel, Linear, Consumptive Make’: The Disease of Sensibility and the Sentimental
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5. ‘A consuming malady and a consuming mistress’: Consumptive Masculinity and Sensibility
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Part III. Romantic and Victorian

6. Wasting Poets
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7. ‘Seeming delicately slim’: Consumed and Consuming Women
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8. Meeting Keats in Heaven: David Gray and the Romantic Legacy
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9. Conclusion: Germ Theory and After
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Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, History of Medieval Europe, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, History of Medicine, Nineteenth-Century Literature