Romanticizing Tuberculosis: Poetry, Prose, Opera, and Society of the Romantic Era

The Romantic Era peaked from 1800 through 1850. This era saw an increased emphasis on individualism and the self, and a growing sense of nationalism. The works of the period relied on sensory description, using romance to cloud otherwise bleak situations. For society, consumption was linked to poetic and aesthetic qualities, to the extent that the consumptive’s pale and slender features were viewed as highly desirable characteristics. This reverence allowed for portrayals and perceptions of consumption to be clouded by romantic images, until scientists were able to identify the tuberculosis causing bacteria and its severity became better understood.

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Anthropology

Grantor

Texas State University-San Marcos

Year dc:date.issued

2013

Author dc:creator

• Martinez, Gabriela Gordon

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Hood, John

• romantic era
• tuberculosis
• poetry
• prose
• theatres
• eighteenth-century medicine
• nineteenth-century medicine

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10877/4661

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digital.library.txst.edu:10877/4661