A Lingering Condition Sealy Lynch, Rachael. creator author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut SpringerLink (Online service) text sz 2024 1st ed. 2024. monographic eng

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access XIX, 227 p. 3 illus. online resource. 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. 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. 1 The Story of Tuberculosis in Ireland: An Overview.-2 The Nameless Scourge: Tuberculosis in Ireland, 1800–the Present.-3 The Unspoken Menace -- 4 Dracula, Ireland’s Vampiric Vector -- 5 The Lingering and “The Dead”: Illusion and Irony in Early Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction -- 6 Contagion and Community in Irish Fiction 1900–1942 -- 7 Naming the Scourge and the “Sanatorium of the Imagination”. by Rachael Sealy Lynch. Literature, Modern 19th century Literature, Modern 20th century Literature, Modern 21st century Medicine and the humanities Great Britain History Nineteenth-Century Literature Twentieth-Century Literature Contemporary Literature Medical Humanities History of Britain and Ireland PN760.5-769 9783031403453 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40345-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40345-3 231024 20251030110825.0 978-3-031-40345-3