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The Spanish Flu. Narrative and Cultural Identity in Spain, 1918.
R. Davis
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Description for The Spanish Flu. Narrative and Cultural Identity in Spain, 1918.
Paperback. The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history. This cultural history reconstructs Spaniards' experience of the flu and traces the emergence of various competing narratives that arose in response to bacteriology's failure to explain and contain the disease's spread. Num Pages: 268 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history. This cultural history reconstructs Spaniards' experience of the flu and traces the emergence of various competing narratives that arose in response to bacteriology's failure to explain and contain the disease's spread.
The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history. This cultural history reconstructs Spaniards' experience of the flu and traces the emergence of various competing narratives that arose in response to bacteriology's failure to explain and contain the disease's spread.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Number of Pages
255
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349464395
SKU
V9781349464395
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99-15
About R. Davis
Ryan A. Davis is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Illinois State University, USA. His research on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spain focuses on the intersection between literary and medical discourses, articulations of national and individual subjectivity, and, more recently, 'fringe' discourses like hypnotism. His published work has appeared in the Journal of Spanish ... Read more
Reviews for The Spanish Flu. Narrative and Cultural Identity in Spain, 1918.
“The Spanish Flu … make a significant contribution to our understanding of how civilians living within specific national cultures experienced the epidemic … . this book richly suggests new paths for other scholars of the 1918 flu and for the study of national cultures. … make a compelling case for understanding epidemics within the frameworks of cultural narratives and national ... Read more