Editing Cholera (section)

===In popular culture===
Unlike [[tuberculosis]] ("consumption") which in literature and the arts was often romanticized as a disease of denizens of the [[demimondaine|demimonde]] or those with an artistic temperament,<ref>[[Susan Sontag|Sontag Susan]] (1977) ''[[Illness as Metaphor]] / [[AIDS and Its Metaphors]]''. New York: Picador. {{isbn|0-312-42013-7}}</ref> cholera is a disease which almost entirely affects the poor living in unsanitary conditions. This, and the unpleasant course of the disease – which includes voluminous "rice-water" diarrhea, the hemorrhaging of liquids from the mouth, and violent muscle contractions which continue even after death – has discouraged the disease from being romanticized, or even being factually presented in popular culture.<ref name="snowden" />
* The 1889 novel ''[[Mastro-don Gesualdo]]'' by [[Giovanni Verga]] presents the course of a cholera epidemic across the island of [[Sicily]], but does not show the suffering of those affected.<ref name="snowden" />
* Cholera is a major plot device in [[The Painted Veil (novel)|The Painted Veil]], a 1925 novel by [[W. Somerset Maugham]]. The story concerns a shy bacteriologist who discovers his young, pretty wife is having an adulterous affair. The doctor exacts revenge on his wife by inducing her to travel with him to mainland China which is in the grips of an horrific cholera outbreak. The ravages of the disease are frankly described in the novel.
* In [[Thomas Mann]]'s [[novella]] ''[[Death in Venice]]'', first published in 1912 as ''Der Tod in Venedig'', Mann "presented the disease as emblematic of the final 'bestial degradation' of the sexually transgressive author Gustav von Aschenbach." Contrary to the actual facts of how violently cholera kills, Mann has his protagonist die peacefully on a beach in a deck chair. [[Luchino Visconti]]'s [[Death in Venice (film)|1971 film version]] also hid from the audience the actual course of the disease.<ref name="snowden" /> Mann's novella was also [[Death in Venice (opera)|made into an opera]] by [[Benjamin Britten]] in 1973, his last one, and into a ballet by [[John Neumeier]] for his [[Hamburg Ballet]] company, in December 2003.*
* ''[[The Horseman on the Roof (novel)|The Horseman on the Roof]]'' (orig. French ''Le Hussard sur le toit'') is a 1951 adventure novel written by [[Jean Giono]]. It tells the story of Angelo Pardi, a young Italian [[carbonari|carbonaro]] colonel of [[hussars]], caught up in the [[1826–1837 cholera pandemic|1832 cholera epidemic]] in [[Provence]]. In 1995, it was made into [[The Horseman on the Roof|a film of the same name]] directed by [[Jean-Paul Rappeneau]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Holden |first1=Stephen |title=Film Review – The Horseman on the Roof |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/filmarchive/horseman_on_the_roof.html |work=The New York Times |date=17 May 1996}}</ref>
* In [[Gabriel Garcia Márquez]]'s 1985 novel ''[[Love in the Time of Cholera]]'', cholera is "a looming background presence rather than a central figure requiring vile description."<ref name="snowden">{{cite book | last = Snowden |first = Frank M. | title = Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present | place = New Haven, Connecticut | publisher = Yale University Press | year = 2019 | isbn = 978-0-300-19221-6| pages=239–240}}</ref> The novel was adapted in 2007 for the [[Love in the Time of Cholera (film)|film of the same name]] directed by [[Mike Newell (director)|Mike Newell]].
* In ''[[The Secret Garden]]'', Mary Lennox's parents die from cholera.