Consumptive chic: a history of beauty, fashion, and disease

Introduction

1. The approach to illness

2. The curious case of consumption: a family affair

3. Exciting consumption: the causes and culture of an illness

4. Morality, mortality, and romanticizing death

5. The angel of death in the household

6. Tragedy and tuberculosis: the Siddons story

7. Dying to be beautiful: the consumptive chic

8. The agony of conceit: clothing and consumption

Epilogue: the end of consumptive chic

Concluding the fashion.