Consumption and Literature: The Making of the Romantic Disease
Consumption and Literature: The Making of the Romantic Disease
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消费与文学：浪漫病的形成
DOI：
10.2307/20468050
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
C. Lawlor
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这本书回答了一个重要而未解的问题：消费--一种可怕的疾病--是如何变成一种迷人的、艺术性的浪漫主义疾病的。它认为，文学作品（文化媒体）在我们对疾病的看法中不是次要的，而是身体体验的主要决定因素之一。为了解释文学神话和身体现实之间的明显差异，它考察了从文艺复兴到维多利亚时代后期的文学和医学，涵盖了广泛的作家和人物，主要和次要的，英国和美国的（莎士比亚，斯特恩，玛丽泰伊，济慈，阿米莉亚奥佩;克拉丽莎，小伊娃）。劳勒表明，消费的症状，使之成为一个合适的疾病，为基督教的好死和疾病的爱。这两种关于消费的论述以及感性和神经医学的兴起，在浪漫主义消费时代到来，并在维多利亚时代发展成为更福音派的消费。这本书得到了AHRC研究假（匹配资金）的支持。劳勒博士生的论文，“十八世纪文学中的性别与疾病”（格兰特）与这项研究有关。劳勒关于流行病的新项目是从书中提出的问题中产生的。
This book answers an important and unanswered question: How consumption – a horrible disease - came to be the glamorous and artistic romantic malady. It argues that literary works (cultural media) are not secondary in our perceptions of disease, but are among the primary determinants of physical experience. In order to explain the apparent disparity between literary myth and bodily reality, it examines literature and medicine from the Renaissance to the late Victorian period, and covers a wide range of authors and characters, major and minor, British and American (Shakespeare, Sterne, Mary Tighe, Keats, Amelia Opie; Clarissa, Little Eva). Lawlor shows that consumption’s symptoms made it a suitable disease for the Christian Good Death and a disease of love. These two discourses of consumption and the rise of sensibility and nerve medicine arrived at the moment of Romantic consumption and developed into the more Evangelical version of consumption in the Victorian era. The book was supported by AHRC research leave (matched-funding). Lawlor’s PhD student’s thesis, ‘Gender and Disease in eighteenth-century literature’ (Grant) relates to this research. Lawlor’s new project on fashionable diseases emerged from the questions posed by the book.