Tubercular Capital: Illness and the Conditions of Modern Jewish Writing by Sunny S. Yudkoff

Tubercular Capital: Illness and the Conditions of Modern Jewish Writing

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Sunny S. Yudkoff

256 pages first pub 2018 (view editions)

nonfiction health history literary informative reflective medium-paced
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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 refle...

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