Symptoms of the Self: Tuberculosis and the Making of the Modern Stage, by Roberta Barker. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2022.

Similarly, Barker's discussion of I Uncle Tom's Cabin i adaptations and I East Lynne i , a consumption drama that played on both sides of the Atlantic from the mid to late nineteenth century, aligns the portrayal of consumptive children with the medical belief held by some at the time that tuberculosis was a hereditary disease. The stage consumptive on the nineteenth-century stage, Barker notes throughout her study, was overwhelmingly white, despite the fact that "Indigenous peoples and people of color were dying of tuberculosis in huge numbers in the transatlantic world" (16). Reading the warnings of critics in Britain and America against these plays, Barker suggests that I Camille i and the consumptive genre to which it belonged proved contagious in their own right. [Extracted from the article]