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diseases in literature

Illness as metaphor

By Susan Sontag

Nineteenth-century narratives of contagion

By Allan Conrad Christensen

Disease, diagnosis, and cure on the early modern stage

By Kaara L. Peterson

Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature

By Byron Lee Grigsby

Peering behind the curtain

By Thomas Richard Fahy,Kimball King

City of Health, Fields of Disease

By Martin Wallen

Taboo

By Hannah Thompson

Ageing, Gender, and Illness in Anglophone Literature

By Heike Hartung

Medicine and Literature

By John Salinsky,Iona (FWD) Heath

Body Language

By G. Thomas Couser

Disrupted Narratives

By Emma Bond

Krankheiten und Textgattungen

By Stephanie Bölts

Disease, desire, and the body in Victorian women's popular novels

By Pamela K. Gilbert

Sick Economies

By Jonathan Gil Harris

Metaphor in Illness Writing

By Anita Wohlmann

The rich man and the diseased poor in early Victorian literature

By A. Susan Williams

The Wounded Self

By Nina Schmidt

Illness as Method

By Jayjit Sarkar

Yellow Fever Years

By Ingrid Gessner

Bills of Mortality

By Patrick Reilly

Ecosickness in Contemporary US Fiction

By Heather Houser

Theme of the Plague in Italian Letters

By Vincenzo Traversa

De la Poétique du Mal à l'Écriture de l'épidémie Dans la Peste d'Albert Camus et le Hussard Sur le Toit de Jean Giono

By Senda Souabni-Jlidi

Pathologies of Love in Classical Literature

By Dimitrios Kanellakis