Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 189 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates)
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illustrations (some color)
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350009417
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9781350009400
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1350009407
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9781350009394
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1350009393
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9781350009394
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9781350009387
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9781350009370
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1350009377
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1350009385
Content:
Introduction : Constructing tuberculosis ; The social context ; Scholarly construction of tuberculosis -- The approach to illness : Tuberculosis mortality ; Anatomico-pathological approach to disease -- The curious case of consumption: a family affair : Contagious? ; The constitution ; Palliate rather than cure -- Exciting consumption: the causes and culture of an illness : The personal environment: status symbol ; Ephemeral causes of consumption ; Nervous consumptives ; Civilizing consumption -- Morality, mortality, and romanticizing death : The consumptive performance: resignation in the face of death ; Romanticizing consumption ; The illness intelligence ; Consumptive Keats -- The angel of death in the household : That sentimental feeling: feminizing consumption ; Consumptive marriage ; The reproductive body ; Sensibility and feminine character -- Tragedy and tuberculosis: the Siddons story : A beautiful predisposition ; That lothario Lawrence ; The decline of Maria ; A beautiful ending? -- Dying to be beautiful: the consumptive chic : From corpulent to consumptive chic ; Fashionable illness ; Sentimental beauty -- The agony of conceit: clothing and consumption : Classical consumptive and the dangers of fashionable life ; Consumptive corsetry and romantic fashion ; Tubercular and tight the sentimental way -- Epilogue : The end of consumptive chic -- Concluding the fashion.
Content:
"During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular moment in which perceptions of the disease consumption (tuberculosis) became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing out in the clothing fashions of the day. With the ravages of the illness widely regarded as conferring beauty on the sufferer, it became commonplace to regard tuberculosis as a positive affliction, one to be emulated in both beauty practices and dress. While medical writers of the time believed that the fashionable way of life of many women actually rendered them susceptible to the disease, Carolyn A. Day investigates the deliberate and widespread flouting of admonitions against these fashion practices in the pursuit of beauty. Through an exploration of contemporary social trends and medical advice revealed in medical writing, literature and personal papers, Consumptive Chic uncovers the intimate relationship between fashionable women's clothing and medical understandings of the illness. Illustrated with over 40 full color fashion plates, caricatures, medical images, and photographs of original garments, this is a compelling story of the complex connections between the body, beauty, and disease --and the rise of tubercular chic"--Back cover
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-181) and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350009400
Additional Edition:
ebook version ISBN 9781350009400
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350009417
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