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Yellow Fever years : an epidemiology of nineteenth-century American literature and culture

Title
Yellow Fever years : an epidemiology of nineteenth-century American literature and culture / Ingrid Gessner.
Author
Gessner, Ingrid, 1972-
Publication
Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang GmbH, [2016]

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Description
282 pages; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Regensburg studies in British and American languages and cultures ; volume 52
Uniform Title
Regensburger Arbeiten zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik ; Bd. 52.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Representing yellow fever : contagion, crisis, and control -- Approaches to reading yellow fever texts -- Yellow Fever Fiction as Symbolic Action -- Conceptualizing yellow fever representations : nation, gender, and race -- Etiology and history of yellow fever -- Making yellow fever American : medical discourses and Atlantic conversations -- Perspectivizing yellow fever historiography and literature -- Yellow fever in 1793 : a case in point : resolving crises and building the nation -- Introducing yellow fever in 1793 -- Infecting the nation : Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn, or, Memoirs of the year 1793 (1799-1800) -- Political dimensions : Matthew Carey's Short Account (1793) and Absalom Jones and Richard Allen's Narrative (1794) -- Looking back to 1793 : the Philadelphia epidemic in, and cultural memory -- Yellow fever and the nation -- Displaying disease : yellow fever visualized -- Picturing yellow fever -- Establishing an etiology and iconography of pictured disease -- Yellow fever under the touristic or distant gaze : an aesthetics of the destructive sublime -- Capturing yellow fever on camera -- Visual functionalizations of yellow fever -- Gendered accounts of yellow fever -- Women, writing, and yellow fever -- Between nostalgia and women's rights : Mary Faith Floyd's The Nereid (1871) -- Yellow fever and the nursing experience : Wesley Bradshaw's Angel Agnes (1873) and Mattie Stephenson (1873) -- "Volunteers to the fever district" : reversing gender roles in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's "Zerviah Hope" (1880) -- "The fever creeping into her veins" : yellow fever as liminal experience in Mollie E.M. Davis's The Queen's Garden (1900) -- The transformative potential of yellow fever narratives -- Race and racial relations in yellow fever writing -- Theorizing yellow fever and race -- Yellow fever at sea -- New Orleans : race capital, disease capital -- Yellow fever and the African American experience -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Yellow fever fiction, poetry, and drama 1793-1916 -- Yellow fever fiction of the late twentieth and twenty-first century -- Works cited -- Index
Call Number
JFD 18-4931
ISBN
  • 9783631674123
  • 3631674120
LCCN
2016004641
OCLC
946254894
Author
Gessner, Ingrid, 1972- author.
Title
Yellow Fever years : an epidemiology of nineteenth-century American literature and culture / Ingrid Gessner.
Publisher
Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang GmbH, [2016]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Regensburg studies in British and American languages and cultures ; volume 52
Regensburger Arbeiten zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik ; Bd. 52.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1800-1899
Research Call Number
JFD 18-4931
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