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

by Udo Hebel (Other), Ingrid Gessner (Author)

Rooted in American Studies and the Medical Humanities, the study is situated at the interface of American medicine, literature, and visuality. As a literary history of yellow fever epidemics, it presents the ideological, socio-political, visual, and cultural processing of the disease from the late 18th until the end of the 19th century.

Author Biography

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.