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Symptoms of the Self: Tuberculosis and the Making of the Modern Stage

By (author) Roberta Barker

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Symptoms of the Self offers the first full study of the stage consumptive. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in France, Britain, and North America, tuberculosis was a leading killer. Its famous dramatic and operatic victimsâ€”Marguerite Gautier in La Dame aux CameÌlias and her avatar Violetta in La Traviata, MimiÌ€ in La BoheÌ€me, Little Eva in Uncle Tomâ€™s Cabin, and Edmund Tyrone in Long Dayâ€™s Journey into Night, to name but a fewâ€”are among the most iconic figures of the Western stage. Its classic symptoms, the cough and the blood-stained handkerchief, have become global performance shorthand for life-threatening illness. The consumptive character became a vehicle through which standards of health, beauty, and virtue were imposed; constructions of class, gender, and sexuality were debated; the boundaries of nationhood were transgressed or maintained; and an exceedingly fragile whiteness was held up as a dominant social ideal. By telling the story of tuberculosis on the transatlantic stage, Symptoms of the Self uncovers some of the wellsprings of modern Western theatrical practiceâ€”and of ideas about the self that still affect the way human beings live and die.

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