Times and Tides of Tuberculosis: Perceptions Revealed in Literature, Keats to Sontag - Softcover

Daniel, Thomas M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564745449 ISBN 13: 9781564745446

Publisher: Daniel & Daniel Pub, 2013

Synopsis

In this social history of tuberculosis, Daniel (emeritus, medicine, Case Western Reserve University) chronicles the changing attitudes and treatments of tuberculosis by looking at fiction, drama, essays, poetry, and letters written by writers who had tuberculosis or were affected by the disease in other ways. Chronological chapters consider writers including Keats, the Brontės, Thoreau, Alexandre Dumas, Thomas Mann, Katherine Mansfield, Sylvia Plath, and Susan Sontag. There is no subject index. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Edition details

• Publisher: Daniel & Daniel Pub
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1564745449
• ISBN 13: 9781564745446
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 173