Consumptive chic : a history of beauty, fashion, and disease /

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing out in the clothing fashions of the day. With the ravages of the illness widely regarded as co...

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Main Author: Day, Carolyn A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
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Online Access:CONNECT