How Long to Read Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature

How Long Does it Take to Read Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 7 minutes to read Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature by Alex Tankard

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Description

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.

How long is Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature?

Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature by Alex Tankard is 244 pages long, and a total of 61,976 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature aloud.

What Reading Level is Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature?

Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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