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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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Details
- 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
- Literature and medicine
- Yellow fever
- Diseases and literature
- American literature
- Epidemics in literature
- Yellow fever in literature
- Literature and medicine > United States > History > 19th century
- Yellow fever > United States > History > 19th century
- United States
- Diseases and literature > United States > History > 19th century
- 1800-1899
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- History
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
- 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 52Regensburger Arbeiten zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik ; Bd. 52.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-4931