SOURCE: "Erotic Susceptibility and Tuberculosis: Literary Images of a Pathology," in MLN, Vol. 105, No. 5, December, 1990, pp. 1016-31.
In the following essay, Latimer observes that in works by such authors as Thomas Mann and Edgar Allan Poe characters afflicted with tuberculosis are associated with erotic and artistic qualities.
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