Tuberculosis and Irish Fiction, 1800–2022: A Lingering Condition (New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature) (PDF)

By Rachael Sealy Lynch
This book focuses on Ireland’s lived experience of tuberculosis as represented in the nation’s fiction; not surprisingly, the disease both manifests and conceals itself with devastating frequency in literature as it did in life. It seeks to place the history of tuberculosis in Ireland, from 1800 until after its virtual eradication in the mid-Twentieth Century, in conversation with fictional representations or repressions of a condition so fearsome that until very recently it was usually referred to by code words and euphemisms rather than by its name.

Product Details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Palgrave Macmillan (November 11, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 248 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3031403479
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3031403477