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ISBN: 9780815653066 0815653069 9780815633792 0815633793 Year: 2015 Publisher: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press,
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Part literary history and part medical sociology, Gilman's book chronicles the careers of three major immigrant Yiddish poets of the twentieth century-Solomon Bloomgarten (Yehoash), Sholem Shtern, and H. Leivick-all of whom lived through, and wrote movingly of, their experience as patients in a tuberculosis sanatorium. Gilman addresses both the formative influence of the sanatorium on the writers' work and the culture of an institution in which, before the days of antibiotics, writing was encouraged as a form of therapy. He argues that each writer produced a significant body of work during his recovery, itself an experience that profoundly influenced the course of his subsequent literary career. Seeking to recover the "imaginary" of the sanatorium as a scene of writing by doctors and patients, Gilman explores the historical connection between tuberculosis treatment and the written word. Through a close analysis of Yiddish poems, and translations of these writers, Gilman sheds light on how essential writing and literature were to the sanatorium experience. All three poets wrote under the shadow of death. Their works are distinctive, but their most urgent concerns are shared: strangers in a strange land, suffering, displacement, acculturation, and, inevitably, what it means to be a Jew.
Sanatoriums in literature. --- Patients' writings --- Tuberculosis and literature. --- Yiddish poetry --- Writings of patients --- Literature --- Literature and tuberculosis --- Yiddish literature --- History and criticism.
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ISBN: 9781503607330 150360733X 9781503605152 1503605159 Year: 2019 Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press,
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At the turn of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was a leading cause of death across America, Europe, and the Russian Empire. The incurable disease gave rise to a culture of convalescence, creating new opportunities for travel and literary reflection. Tubercular Capital tells the story of Yiddish and Hebrew writers whose lives and work were transformed by a tubercular diagnosis. Moving from eastern Europe to the Italian Peninsula, and from Mandate Palestine to the Rocky Mountains, Sunny S. Yudkoff follows writers including Sholem Aleichem, Raḥel Bluvshtein, David Vogel, and others as they sought "the cure" and drew on their experiences of illness to hone their literary craft.Combining archival research with literary analysis, Yudkoff uncovers how tuberculosis came to function as an agent of modern Jewish literature. The illness would provide the means for these suffering writers to grow their reputations and find financial backing. It served a central role in the public fashioning of their literary personas and ushered Jewish writers into a variety of intersecting English, German, and Russian literary traditions. Tracing the paths of these writers, Tubercular Capital reconsiders the foundational relationship between disease, biography, and literature.
Tuberculosis in literature. --- Jewish literature --- Jewish authors --- Tuberculosis patients' writings --- Tuberculosis and literature. --- Hebrew literature, Modern --- Yiddish literature --- Literature and tuberculosis --- Writings of tuberculosis patients --- Literature --- Authors --- History and criticism. --- Diseases --- History.
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ISBN: 3319714465 3319714457 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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Until the nineteenth century, consumptives were depicted as sensitive, angelic beings whose purpose was to die beautifully and set an example of pious suffering – while, in reality, many people with tuberculosis faced unemployment, destitution, and an unlovely death in the workhouse. Focusing on the period 1821-1912, in which modern ideas about disease, disability, and eugenics emerged to challenge Romanticism and sentimentality, Invalid Lives examines representations of nineteenth-century consumptives as disabled people. Letters, self-help books, eugenic propaganda, and press interviews with consumptive artists suggest that people with tuberculosis were disabled as much by oppressive social structures and cultural stereotypes as by the illness itself. Invalid Lives asks whether disruptive consumptive characters in Wuthering Heights, Jude the Obscure, The Idiot, and Beatrice Harraden’s 1893 New Woman novel Ships That Pass in the Night represented critical, politicised models of disabled identity (and disabled masculinity) decades before the modern disability movement.
Literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- 19th century. --- Fiction --- Tuberculosis in literature. --- Tuberculosis and literature --- Literature and tuberculosis --- History and criticism. --- History --- Literature, Modern-19th century. --- Literature, Modern—19th century.
ISBN: 3465029690 9783465029694 Year: 1997 Volume: 16 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main : V. Klostermann,
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Sanatoriums in literature --- Tuberculosis and literature --- Sanatoriums dans la littérature --- Tuberculose et littérature --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Mann, Thomas, --- Congresses. --- Davos (Switzerland) --- Davos (Suisse) --- In literature --- Dans la littérature --- 830 "19" MANN, THOMAS --- -Tuberculosis and literature --- -Literature and tuberculosis --- Duitse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--MANN, THOMAS --- Mann, Thomas --- -トーマス・マン --- -In literature --- -Congresses --- Der Zauberberg (Mann) --- Sanatoria dans la littérature --- Literature. --- Sanatoriums in literature. --- Tuberculosis and literature. --- Congrès. --- Mann, Thomas. --- Mann, Thomas (1875-1955). --- Contemporains. --- Der Zauberberg. --- Zauberberg (Mann, Thomas). --- Davos <1996> --- Davos (Suisse) dans la littérature --- Switzerland --- -Duitse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--MANN, THOMAS --- 830 "19" MANN, THOMAS Duitse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--MANN, THOMAS --- Der Zauberberg (Mann). --- Davos <1996>. --- Sanatoriums dans la littérature --- Tuberculose et littérature --- Congrès --- Dans la littérature --- Literature and tuberculosis
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