| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-277) and index. |
| Contents |
The hardest knife ill-used : Shakespeare's tremor -- Exil'd from light : the blindness of John Milton -- Dying from the top down : The dementia of Jonathan Swift -- Some sweet poisoned breeze had passed into her lungs : the Brontës and tuberculosis -- Dismal labyrinth of doubt : the strange death of Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Perilous outpost of the sane : the many maladies of Herman Melville -- Sex and the dead : brucellosis, arsenic and William Butler Yeats -- Medical misadventures of an amateur M.D. : Jack London's death by hubris -- An infamous private ailment : the venereal afflictions of James Joyce -- "The disease which was bound to claim me sooner or later" : Orwell's cough. |
| Subject |
Authors, English -- Biography.
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Authors, English -- Health and hygiene.
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Literature and medicine.
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Authors, American -- Biography.
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Authors, American -- Health and hygiene.
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Diseases and literature.
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| ISBN |
9780312600761 hardback $24.99 |
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0312600763 hardback |
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