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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 759–766.
Published: 01 December 2020
... (Sherman 1997 : 242). The early American novelist Charles Brockden Brown only had to invoke a year in the subtitle of his novel Arthur Mervyn: Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 ([2 vols., 1799–1800] 2008 ) for a contemporary reader to know it would be set in Philadelphia’s yellow fever outbreak that year...
Journal Article
American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 325–353.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., and read in the cities most affected by the Yellow Fever outbreaks. Information bubbles that newspapers advertently or inadvertently helped form also exacerbated the Yellow Fever and other epidemics of this era. Because one-tenth of the population died between the beginning of the outbreak and the turn...
Journal Article
American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 557–590.
Published: 01 September 2017
... a map, the city removed a pump handle, and the cholera outbreak subsided. Here is what gets lost: disease mapping had a fifty-year history that predated Snow’s map, and even the spot map technique he used wasn’t new. Valentine Seaman had used a spot map as early as 1796 to track a yellow fever outbreak...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 689–696.
Published: 01 December 2020
...—“frontline,” “essential” and service workers are being placed at even greater risk. Writing about the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia, AME ministers Richard Allen and Absalom Jones lamented the loss of Black people who were misled, in their characterization, into dangerous duties that amplified...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 437–466.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of the most frightened (mis)readers in all of Brown’s fiction is
Baxter in ‘‘The Man at Home A character developed from Brown’s
observations of the yellow fever epidemics in Philadelphia in 1793 and
1797, Baxter falls ill and dies because he believes, falsely, that he has
just witnessed the midnight burial...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 723–735.
Published: 01 December 2020
... . . . passed from this scene” into other fragments, including those of revolutionary narrative and Makandalism. In pandemic terms, we might note that the work of the mosquito was instrumental in defeating the French during the Haitian Revolution. As Cristobal Silva ( 2016 ) argues, the yellow fever that killed...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 707–722.
Published: 01 December 2020
... circulated widely as an icon of COVID-19 disease, the narrative logic of causality demanded a source—a disease vector—that would be visible to the naked eye. In historical outbreak media, the mosquito has been the most iconic disease vector, featured in health films about malaria, dengue, Yellow Fever...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 647–675.
Published: 01 December 2008
..., Philadelphia had strong political participation by
artisans and workers, leading to its eventual dominance by the Demo-
cratic Republicans. But before that day, with the slave revolt in Haiti—
in particular the flood of refugees from Cap François in 1793—and the
yellow fever epidemic, often blamed...
Journal Article
American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 473–499.
Published: 01 September 2024
...—when world comes to depend on a work contract. In Ling Ma’s 2018 novel Severance , Chinese American protagonist Candace Chen signs a contract with her employer, a book publisher named Spectra, to remain working in the company’s New York City office during the deadly “Shen Fever,” even as most...
Journal Article
American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 671–690.
Published: 01 September 2000
... republican virtue, women’s education, marriage, and the effects of the
yellow fever epidemic.
Anthologies
Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657–1777. Ed...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 719–745.
Published: 01 December 2009
... in the shadow.” The latter, however, will report
American Literature, Volume 81, Number 4, December 2009
DOI 10.1215/00029831-2009-044 © 2009 by Duke University Press
720 American Literature
“that the shadows are not grey but dull blue and that the snow in sun-
shine is of a rich yellow.” Peirce...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 847–849.
Published: 01 December 2005
... empowers and undermines
early Black Atlantic writing’’ (143), and the writing on yellow fever epidemics,
which were understood within the framework of a corrupt commerce engen-
dering disease.
Barbaric Traffic opens with the briefest of discussions of Eric Williams’s
Marxian thesis, developed...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 850–852.
Published: 01 December 2005
...
commercial conflicts with Britain occupy a significant position (chapter 3).
Two final chapters explore black Atlantic autobiography, in which the ‘‘rhe-
torical mix of liberty, property, and humanity both empowers and undermines
early Black Atlantic writing’’ (143), and the writing on yellow fever epidemics...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 852–854.
Published: 01 December 2005
...), and the writing on yellow fever epidemics,
which were understood within the framework of a corrupt commerce engen-
dering disease.
Barbaric Traffic opens with the briefest of discussions of Eric Williams’s
Marxian thesis, developed in Capitalism and Slavery (1944), that the slave
trade ‘‘provided...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 854–856.
Published: 01 December 2005
...
early Black Atlantic writing’’ (143), and the writing on yellow fever epidemics,
which were understood within the framework of a corrupt commerce engen-
dering disease.
Barbaric Traffic opens with the briefest of discussions of Eric Williams’s
Marxian thesis, developed in Capitalism and Slavery...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 856–858.
Published: 01 December 2005
... a significant position (chapter 3).
Two final chapters explore black Atlantic autobiography, in which the ‘‘rhe-
torical mix of liberty, property, and humanity both empowers and undermines
early Black Atlantic writing’’ (143), and the writing on yellow fever epidemics,
which were understood within...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 858–861.
Published: 01 December 2005
... (chapter 3).
Two final chapters explore black Atlantic autobiography, in which the ‘‘rhe-
torical mix of liberty, property, and humanity both empowers and undermines
early Black Atlantic writing’’ (143), and the writing on yellow fever epidemics,
which were understood within the framework of a corrupt...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 861–862.
Published: 01 December 2005
... conflicts with Britain occupy a significant position (chapter 3).
Two final chapters explore black Atlantic autobiography, in which the ‘‘rhe-
torical mix of liberty, property, and humanity both empowers and undermines
early Black Atlantic writing’’ (143), and the writing on yellow fever epidemics,
which...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 862–864.
Published: 01 December 2005
... empowers and undermines
early Black Atlantic writing’’ (143), and the writing on yellow fever epidemics,
which were understood within the framework of a corrupt commerce engen-
dering disease.
Barbaric Traffic opens with the briefest of discussions of Eric Williams’s
Marxian thesis, developed...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 864–867.
Published: 01 December 2005
... mix of liberty, property, and humanity both empowers and undermines
early Black Atlantic writing’’ (143), and the writing on yellow fever epidemics,
which were understood within the framework of a corrupt commerce engen-
dering disease.
Barbaric Traffic opens with the briefest of discussions...
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