TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bjerre,Thomas Ærvold
AU  - Zawadka,Beata
TI  - The scourges of the south?: essays on "the sickly south" in history, literature, and popular culture 
SN  - 1443869880
AV  - PS261 .S68 2014
U1  - 810.9/975 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - American literature
KW  - Southern States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Sick in literature
KW  - Diseases in literature
KW  - Medicine in literature
KW  - Medicine in Literature
KW  - Illness Behavior
KW  - Cultural Characteristics
KW  - history
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - Malades dans la littérature
KW  - Maladies dans la littérature
KW  - Médecine dans la littérature
KW  - Médecine
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Literature & literary studies
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Regional studies
KW  - Regional & national history
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Southeastern United States
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; PART II; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
N2  - In this book, eleven scholars ""take their stand"" on the controversial issue of disease as it occurs in the context of the American South. Playing on the popular vision of the South as an ill region on several levels, the European and American contributors interpret various aspects of the regional ""sickly"" culture as not so much southern ""problems"", but, rather, southern opportunities, or else, springboards to yet another of the South's cultural revitalizations, ""health"". As Thomas A Ervold Bjerre and Beata Zawadka note in their introduction, the so-called ""Healthy South"" has never be
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