SOURCE: "Introduction: Disease and Art," in Disease and the Novel, 1880-1960, The Macmillan Press Ltd., 1985, pp. 1-18.
In the following excerpt, Meyers examines works by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors that reveal differing attitudes and ideas relating to disease.
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