Yellow Fever Years: An Epidemiology of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

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 from the late 18th until the end of the 19th century. Previously untapped textual and visual archives provide a heterogeneous base of canonical as well as previously disregarded works that are analyzed for yellow fever�s metaphorical and actual potential of risk and crisis. As a literary history of yellow fever epidemics, it firmly establishes the ideological, socio-political, visual, and cultural processing of the disease, which figures as invasive, inexplicable Other.Yellow Fever Years has received the Peter Lang Nachwuchspreis 2015. Additional ISBNs 3631674120, 3631697201, 9783631674123, 9783631697207Yellow Fever Years: An Epidemiology of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture 1st Edition is written by Ingrid Gessner and published by Peter Lang Gmb H, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften. ISBNs for Yellow Fever Years are 9783631697191, 3631697198 and the print ISBNs are 9783631674123, 3631674120. Additional ISBNs include 3631674120, 3631697201, 9783631674123, 9783631697207.