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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
Author’s Note
1. The Hardest Knife Ill-Used: Shakespeare’s Tremor
2. Exil’d from Light: The Blindness of John Milton
3. Dying from the Top Down: The Dementia of Jonathan Swift
4. Some Sweet Poisoned Breeze had Passed into her Lungs: The Brontës and Tuberculosis
5. Dismal Labyrinth of Doubt: The Strange Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne
6. Perilous Outpost of the Sane: The Many Maladies of Herman Melville
7. Sex and the Dead: Brucellosis, Arsenic, and William Butler Yeats
8. Medical Misadventures of an Amateur M.D.: Jack London’s Death by Hubris
9. An Infamous Private Ailment: The Venereal Afflictions of James Joyce
10. “The Disease which was Bound to Claim Me Sooner Or Later”: Orwell’s Cough
Acknowledgements
Bibliography and Endnotes
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