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Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease
Consumptive Chic A History of Beauty Fashion and Disease
Author: Carolyn Day
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 conferring beauty on the sufferer, it became commonplace to...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781350009370
ISBN-10: 1350009377
Publication Date: 10/5/2017
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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