Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Symptom, the Stage, and the Transmission of the Self
Part I. Consumptive Poetics
Chapter One. “La Poétique du Poitrinaire”: The Making of the Stage Consumptive, 1828–1833
Chapter Two. Death and the Working Woman: Subtexts of the Consumptive Heroine, 1848–1855
Part II. Sentimental Transmissions
Chapter Three. Camilleology: The Stage Consumptive as Transnational Vector, 1852–1877
Chapter Four. The Ills of the Parents: Heredity, Sentiment, and the Stage Consumptive Child, 1852–1900
Chapter Five. Ailing Nations: Consumption, the Stage, and the Body Politic, 1857–1900
Part III. The Sentimental Survival
Chapter Six. Sentimental Resistance: The Stage Consumptive in the Age of the Bacillus, 1879–1906
Chapter Seven. The Con That Tells the Truth: The Consumptive Repertoire and the Autobiographical Impulse in American Theatre, 1912–1977
Afterword. A Living Repertoire
Notes
Bibliography
Index