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This article argues that the ‘fashionable’ diseases of consumption and melancholy were both linked by eighteenth‐century medical theory about nervous diseases and sensibility, and that these diseases ‘worked’ for the novelist Laurence Sterne to promote his fiction and fame as a man of sensibility and sentiment. Through his own life and those of his literary and artistic characters Sterne exploited...
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