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This book examines representations of tuberculosis in Victorian fiction, giving insights into how society viewed this disease and its sufferers.

This book addresses the evident but unexplored intertwining of visibility and invisibility in the discourses around syphilis. A rethinking of the disease with r

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to conte

This first collected discussion of Pater's significance for English literary criticism reveals his importance in shaping the principles of Modernist criticism a

In the mid-nineteenth century, thirty-six expeditions set out for the Northwest Passage in search of Sir John Franklin's missing expedition. The array of visual