Epidemic entertainments: Disease and popular culture in early-twentieth-century America

American Literary History

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 625-652

  Tomes, Nancy ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 27744512143     PISSN: 08967148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/alh/14.4.625     Document Type: Article

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