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Tuberculosis and Genius.

MOORMAN, Lewis Jefferson (1875-1954).

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8vo. xxxv, [1], 272 pp. Frontis. portrait, 9 plates. Blue gilt-stamped cloth, dust-jacket; jacket extremities somewhat worn. Inked gift inscription. Very good. Moorman posits that tuberculosis sig...

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8vo. xxxv, [1], 272 pp. Frontis. portrait, 9 plates. Blue gilt-stamped cloth, dust-jacket; jacket extremities somewhat worn. Inked gift inscription. Very good. Moorman posits that tuberculosis significantly added to the creativity of artists. Chapters involve Robert Louis Stevenson, Friedrich Schiller, Marie Bashkirtseff, Voltaire, Katherine Mansfield, Moliere, Francis Thompson, Percy Bysshe Shelly, John Keats, and Saint Francis of Assisi.

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Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1940.
Year: 1940
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover

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