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Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination

This monograph is the only book to examine the representation of tuberculosis in Victorian culture since Sontag’s classic Illness as Metaphor. Its interdisciplinary focus brings together a large body of medical writing on disease, alongside a wide range of literature from the period. It thus required three years of extensive archival research in the British and Wellcome Libraries. Its six chapters are each as long as a standard journal article and an earlier version of chapter two was previously published in Nineteenth-Century Contexts. Since publication it has received very good reviews, and it has recently been re-released in paperback.