Autor(en)

Gessner, Ingrid:

Auflage

Auflage: New edition

Verlag / Jahr

Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 14.11.2016.

Format / Einband

21,0 x 15,2 x 2,5 cm, Gebundene Ausgabe 282 Seiten

Sprache

Englisch

Gewicht

ca. 468 g

ISBN

3631674120

EAN

9783631674123

Bestell-Nr

1076333

Bemerkungen

Neuwertiges Exemplar. - Table o f Contents -- Acknowledgements 11 -- Preface 15 -- 1 Representing Yellow Fever: Contagion, Crisis, and Control 21 -- 11 Approaches to Reading Yellow Fever Texts21 -- 12 Yellow Fever Fiction as Symbolic Action 26 -- 13 Conceptualizing Yellow Fever Representations: -- Nation, Gender, and Race 30 -- 14 Etiology and History of Yellow Fever 32 -- 15 Making Yellow Fever American: -- Medical Discourses and Atlantic Conversations 41 -- 16 Perspectivizing Yellow Fever Historiography and Literature 48 -- 2 Yellow Fever in 1793—A Case in Point: -- Resolving Crises and Building the Nation61 -- 21 Introducing Yellow Fever in 1793 61 -- 22 Infecting the Nation: Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur -- Mervyn, or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 (1799/1800) 63 -- 23 Political Dimensions: Matthew Careys Short Account (1793) -- and Absalom Jones and Richard Allens Narrative (1794) 75 -- 24 Looking Back to 1793: The Philadelphia Epidemic in/and -- Cultural M emory 82 -- 25 Yellow Fever and the Nation 91 -- 3 Displaying Disease: Yellow Fever Visualized 93 -- 31 Picturing Yellow Fever 93 -- 32 Establishing an Etiology and Iconography of Pictured Disease 95 -- 33 Yellow Fever under the Touristic or Distant Gaze: -- An Aesthetics of the Destructive Sublime108 -- 34 Capturing Yellow Fever on Camera122 -- 35 Visual Functionalizations of Yellow Fever128 -- 4 Gendered Accounts of Yellow Fever131 -- 41 Women, Writing, and Yellow Fever131 -- 42 Between Nostalgia and Women’s Rights: -- Mary Faith Floyd’s The Nereid (1871)137 -- 43 Yellow Fever and the Nursing Experience: Wesley Bradshaw’s -- Angel Agnes (1873) and Mattie Stephenson (1873) 145 -- 44 “Volunteers to the fever district”: Reversing Gender Roles in -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s “Zerviah Hope” (1880) 162 -- 45 “The fever creeping into her veins”: Yellow Fever as Liminal -- Experience in Mollie E M Davis’s The Queens Garden (1900) 172 -- 46 The Transformative Potential of Yellow Fever Narratives190 -- 5 Race and Racial Relations in Yellow Fever Writing 193 -- 51 Theorizing Yellow Fever and Race193 -- 52 Yellow Fever at Sea196 -- 53 New Orleans: Race Capital, Disease Capital 210 -- 54 Yellow Fever and the African American Experience 224 -- 6 Conclusion 233 -- 7 Bibliography 239 -- 71 Yellow Fever Fiction, Poetry, and Drama 1793-1916239 -- 72 Yellow Fever Fiction of the Late Twentieth and -- Twenty-First Century 248 -- 8 Works Cited249 -- 9 Index 277 ISBN 9783631674123

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