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Author Honigsbaum, Mark, author

Title A history of the great influenza pandemics : death, panic, and hysteria, 1830-1920 / by Mark Honigsbaum
Published London : I.B. Tauris, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 313 pages) : illustrations
Series International library of cultural studies ; 30
International library of cultural studies ; 30
Contents Introduction: "The sphinx of epidemic diseases' -- Pre-modern influenza -- 'An epidemic started by telegraph': news, sensation and science -- 'An inexpressible dread': influenza, nervousness and psychosis -- Demons and disembodied spirits: influenza, masculinity and gothic production at the fin-de-siècle -- 'Death is very busy just now': influenza, celebrity and suffering -- 'A sense of dread is very general': the first world war, the Spanish flu and the northcliffe press -- The 'forgotten' pandemic: flu, trauma and modern memory -- Apocalypse redux
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Influenza -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
Influenza -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Europe -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Europe -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Form Electronic book
Author Bloomsbury (Firm)
ISBN 9780755618613 (electronic bk.)
0755618610 (electronic bk.)