Download or read book Consumption and Literature written by C. Lawlor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to explain how consumption - a horrible disease - came to be the glamorous and artistic Romantic malady. It tries to explain the disparity between literary myth and bodily reality, by examining literature and medicine from the Renaissance to the late Victorian period, covering a wide range of authors and characters.