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‘The TB sufferer was a dropout, a wanderer in endless search of the healthy place. TB became a new reason for exile, for a life that was mainly travelling’. (Sontag, 1978, p. 9) Romantic descriptions of phthisis, or poet-killing disease, are imbued with a quasi-religious fervour and a frantic desire to sentimentalise what contemporaries now think ofContinue reading “Peaks, Passion and Phthisis: Romantic Literary Depictions of Tuberculosis and Mountaineering.”