American Literary History

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Priscilla Wald, Nancy Tomes, and Lisa Lynch

Introduction: Contagion and Culture
Am Lit Hist 2002 14: 617-624; doi:10.1093/alh/14.4.617 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nancy Tomes

Epidemic Entertainments: Disease and Popular Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century America
Am Lit Hist 2002 14: 625-652; doi:10.1093/alh/14.4.625 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Priscilla Wald

Communicable Americanism: Contagion, Geographic Fictions, and the Sociological Legacy of Robert E. Park
Am Lit Hist 2002 14: 653-685; doi:10.1093/alh/14.4.653 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Warwick Anderson

Going Through the Motions: American Public Health and Colonial "Mimicry"
Am Lit Hist 2002 14: 686-719; doi:10.1093/alh/14.4.686 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Susan E. Lederer

"Porto Ricochet": Joking about Germs, Cancer, and Race Extermination in the 1930s
Am Lit Hist 2002 14: 720-746; doi:10.1093/alh/14.4.720 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gregory Tomso

The Queer History of Leprosy and Same-Sex Love
Am Lit Hist 2002 14: 747-775; doi:10.1093/alh/14.4.747 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lisa Lynch

The Fever Next Time: The Race of Disease and the Disease of Racism in John Edgar Wideman
Am Lit Hist 2002 14: 776-804; doi:10.1093/alh/14.4.776 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Heather Schell

The Sexist Gene: Science Fiction and the Germ Theory of History
Am Lit Hist 2002 14: 805-827; doi:10.1093/alh/14.4.805 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cynthia J. Davis

Contagion as Metaphor
Am Lit Hist 2002 14: 828-836; doi:10.1093/alh/14.4.828 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mary Burgan

Contagion and Culture: A View from Victorian Studies
Am Lit Hist 2002 14: 837-844; doi:10.1093/alh/14.4.837 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Margaret Humphreys

No Safe Place: Disease and Panic in American History
Am Lit Hist 2002 14: 845-857; doi:10.1093/alh/14.4.845 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin S. Pernick

Contagion and Culture
Am Lit Hist 2002 14: 858-865; doi:10.1093/alh/14.4.858 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes on Contributors
Am Lit Hist 2002 14: 866-867; doi:10.1093/alh/14.4.866 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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