Overview
- Focuses on Ireland’s experience of TB as represented in the nation’s fiction
- The first book-length study to interrogate the representation of TB in Irish fiction over two centuries
- Enables readers to approach fictional representations of TB in their historical context
Part of the book series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature (NDIIAL)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book focuses on Ireland’s lived experience of tuberculosis as represented in the nation’s fiction; not surprisingly, the disease both manifests and conceals itself with devastating frequency in literature as it did in life. It seeks to place the history of tuberculosis in Ireland, from 1800 until after its virtual eradication in the mid-Twentieth Century, in conversation with fictional representations or repressions of a condition so fearsome that until very recently it was usually referred to by code words and euphemisms rather than by its name.
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About the author
Rachael Sealy Lynch, Associate Professor Emerita of English at the University of Connecticut, USA, works primarily in the field of recent and contemporary Irish women writers, and, more recently, in the medical humanities. She has published widely, with a focus on sex, stigma, and shame, on writers including Anne Enright, Jennifer Johnston, Molly Keane, Edna O’Brien, Emma Donoghue, Mary Lavin, and Liam O’Flaherty.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tuberculosis and Irish Fiction, 1800–2022
Book Subtitle: A Lingering Condition
Authors: Rachael Sealy Lynch
Series Title: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40345-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40344-6Published: 25 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40347-7Due: 25 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-40345-3Published: 24 October 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-3182
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3190
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 227
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Contemporary Literature, Cultural Studies, History of Britain and Ireland