Yellow Fever Years

Ingrid Gessner

ISBN 10: 3631674120 / ISBN 13: 9783631674123

Edité par Peter Lang, Peter Lang Nov 2016, 2016

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Neuware -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. 286 pp. Englisch.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Yellow Fever Years
• Éditeur: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Nov 2016
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3631674120
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783631674123
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 216 L x 153 H x 21 P (en millimètres) 216 millimètres de largeur par 153 millimètres de hauteur par 21 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 485 grammes

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

Ingrid Gessner is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Regensburg. Her interdisciplinary research includes projects of visual culture and literary studies, gender studies, war and peace studies, the medical and digital humanities, and issues of cultural memory and transnationalism.