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Tuberculosis and Irish Fiction, 1800 2022: A Lingering Condition (New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature)
3031403444 rar This book focuses on Irelands lived experience of tuberculosis as represented in the nations 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.