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Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease

By Carolyn A. Day

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2017
ISBN
1350009377, 9781350009370
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
17 MB (17891068 bytes)
Pages
208\0
Time added
2017-11-22 06:09:54
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Long before "heroin chic" made headlines, the emaciated figure and feverish flush associated with tuberculosis victims were admired as beautiful. As the disease spread throughout Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, it became commonplace toregard tuberculosis as a positive affliction, one to be emulated in beauty practices and dress. While medical writers believed that the fashionable way of life of many women actually rendered them susceptible to the disease, Carolyn A. Day investigates the deliberate and widespread flouting of admonitions against these fashion practices in the pursuit of beauty.

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