Disease and Literature

Disease and Literature Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Overviews
  • On Being Ill
  • Introduction: Disease and Art
  • From Anatomy to Criticism
  • Fiction and Illness
• Disease In Nineteenth-Century Literature
• Tuberculosis And Literature
• Women And Disease In Literature
  • The Writing Cure: Women Writers and the Art of Illness
  • Plague, Physician, Writer, and the Poison Damsel
• Plague Literature
  • A Methodology of Thematics: The Literature of the Plague
  • Plagues and Publication: Ballads and the Representation of Disease in the English Renaissance
  • The Plague Narratives of Defoe and Camus: Illness as Metaphor
  • Barbara Fass Leavy
• Aids In Literature
  • AIDS Writing and the Creation of a Gay Culture
  • The Plague and Its Texts: AIDS and Recent American Fiction
  • Coming Up for Air: Three AIDS Plays
  • The Music for a Closing: Responses to AIDS in Three American Novels
  • The Way We Write Now: The Reality of AIDS in Contemporary Short Fiction
• Further Reading