The South in American Literature, 1607-1900.

Social consequence of disease in the American South, 1900-World War II.

The early 20th century Southerner lived in a disease environment created by a confluence of poverty, climate and the legacy of slavery. A deadly trio of pellagra, hookworm and malaria enervated the poor Southerner--man, woman and child--creating a dull, weakened people ill equipped to prosper in the modem world. The Northern perceptions of the South as a backward and sickly region were only com...

Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900

North American Snow Extent : 1900 – 1994

Historical fluctuations of North American snow extent from November through March are reconstructed back to 1900 using a combination of satellite and station observations. Using results of principal components analyses (PCA) from a companion study (Frei, A. and Robinson, D.A. Int. J. Climatol., this volume), simple and multiple linear regression models are used to take advantage of the spatial ...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Nature transfigured: science and literature, 1700–1900

depressed marionette in the medical advertisement discussed by Dr Jordanova is brought back to life by a daily dose of Ludiomil. For the most part the analyses are compelling, even if at times the reader might want rather more evidence and slightly less speculation. The gendered nature of anatomizing crops up several times in the book, culminating in a section in the final chapter in which Dr J...