Ingrid Gessner: 1 book
Yellow Fever Years
An Epidemiology of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Exploring the nexus of American Studies and the Medical Humanities, this book examines the interdisciplinary interfaces between disease and American cultures and literatures. It traces the appropriation of yellow fever to legitimize the young nation and its embeddedness in discourses of race and gender...
