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Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease
By Day, Carolyn
- ISBN
- 9781350009370 9781350009400
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
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Reviewed on June 1, 2018 | Ready-To-Wear and Ready-To-Read
Historian Day (Furman State Univ., SC) examines how late 18th- and early 19th-century England's cultural ideas of beauty and fashion were reflected in the disease of consumption, or tuberculosis. Idealized and feminized in the discourse of the period, consumption was linked with a creative and sensitive intellect among the middle and upper classes. The symptoms, espec...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
