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Figure 1. “Map 1.” John Snow’s (1855) famous cholera map in On the Mode of Communication of Cholera. Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia

“Map 1.” John Snow’s ( 1855 ) famous cholera map in On the Mode of Communi...

in The Gothic Origins of Global Health > American Literature
Published: 01 September 2017
Figure 1 “Map 1.” John Snow’s ( 1855 ) famous cholera map in On the Mode of Communication of Cholera . Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia More
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Figure 3. Cholera was popularly depicted in pairs of before-and-after portraits. “Jeune femme de Vienne âgée 23 ans” and “La même 1 heure après l’invasion du cholera, et ¾ d’heure avant sa mort” in Gèrardin and Gaimard 1832. Courtesy of the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Cholera was popularly depicted in pairs of before-and-after portraits. “Jeu...

in The Gothic Origins of Global Health > American Literature
Published: 01 September 2017
Figure 3 Cholera was popularly depicted in pairs of before-and-after portraits. “Jeune femme de Vienne âgée 23 ans” and “La même 1 heure après l’invasion du cholera, et ¾ d’heure avant sa mort” in Gèrardin and Gaimard 1832 . Courtesy of the Bibliothèque nationale de France More
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The Gothic Origins of Global Health

Sari Altschuler
American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 557–590.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4160894
Published: 01 September 2017
...Figure 1 “Map 1.” John Snow’s ( 1855 ) famous cholera map in On the Mode of Communication of Cholera . Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia ...
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COVID-19: Pandemic Reading

Sari Altschuler, Priscilla Wald
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 681–688.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8780887
Published: 01 December 2020
...Sari Altschuler; Priscilla Wald Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 In 1832, a global cholera pandemic reached US shores. Like COVID-19, cholera was a wholly new disease in the United States (although considerably deadlier), and it was, like the novel coronavirus, a poorly...
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Figure 2. Detail of “Map 1.” From John Snow’s (1855) On the Mode of Communication of Cholera. Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia

Detail of “Map 1.” From John Snow’s ( 1855 ) On the Mode of Communication ...

in The Gothic Origins of Global Health > American Literature
Published: 01 September 2017
Figure 2 Detail of “Map 1.” From John Snow’s ( 1855 ) On the Mode of Communication of Cholera . Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia More
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“Polluted Luxuries”: Consumer Resistance, the Senses of Horror, and Abolitionist Boycott Literature

Jessica Conrad
American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 1–26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4326379
Published: 01 March 2018
... Howell . Crain Patricia . 2000 . The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from the New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter. Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . Daily Picayune (New Orleans) . 1848 . “ The Cholera ,” November . De Rosa Deborah . 2003 . Domestic...
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Plague Time (Again)

Bryan Waterman
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 759–766.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8780971
Published: 01 December 2020
... of measurement. Daniel Defoe’s “plague year”; Alexander Pushkin’s “time of plague”; love or the production of scientific knowledge “in the time of cholera”; the lessons of “the cholera years.” The ease of fit between chronology and narrative, and the (limited) capacity of each to contain disorder, feels perhaps...
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American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences: Styles of Affiliation

Bernice L. Hausman
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 181–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-181
Published: 01 March 2003
... Willard believed that her ideas about cholera were not accepted by established male scientists because she was a woman, not because they weren’t scientifically viable. These women might have ‘‘all believed...
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Publishing the Family; The Whole Family: A Novel by Twelve Authors

Claudia Stokes
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 183–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-183
Published: 01 March 2003
... Reviews 183 under question. Thus, Almira Phelps repudiated Darwin, and Emma Willard believed that her ideas about cholera were not accepted by established male scientists because she was a woman, not because...
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Brief Mention

American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 438–446.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7529287
Published: 01 June 2019
..., ranging from his schooling, the impact of the cholera summer of 1832, and his whaling aboard the Acushnet and the inspiration for Toby in Typee (1846). The final chapter explores Melville’s decision to “remake himself into a modern-day Ossian” by recording the Civil War in poetry. Rebecca...
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Unsanitized Domestic Allegories: Biomedical Politics, Racial Uplift, and the African American Woman's Risk Narrative

Stephen Knadler
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 93–119.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959553
Published: 01 March 2013
... . Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity . Translated by Ritter Mark . London : Sage . Bone Robert . 1958 . The Negro Novel in America . New Haven : Yale Univ. Press . Briggs Charles . 2003 . Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare...
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Pain after 2020, An Introduction

Sari Altschuler, Thomas Constantinesco
American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 141–162.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11218858
Published: 01 June 2024
... on the failures of medical knowing during the early pandemic, see my (Altschuler’s) “Learning from Crisis: Narrative and the History of Medicine” ( 2020 ). See Charles E. Rosenberg’s The Cholera Years ( 1962 ) for the definitive study of how pandemics challenge and remake medical knowledge. 6 In all...
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The Republican Mammy? Imagining Civic Engagement in Dred

Elizabeth Duquette
American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 1–28.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-060
Published: 01 March 2008
... ethics follows Nina’s death in a cholera epidemic, an event that frustrates the reader’s reasonable expectation that an improved Nina will marry Clayton and establish a domestic paradise.23 Reeling from his love’s untimely death, Clay- ton reassesses his ambitions and desires...
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“Rabid Imperialist”: Edith Wharton and the Obligations of Empire in Modern American Fiction

Frederick Wegener
American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 783–812.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-783
Published: 01 December 2000
... in the Philippines (Whar- ton’s model for the Mañanas) during the cholera epidemic of 1902 to 1904, when the arrival of civilian health officials from the United States ‘‘merely supplanted according to one study, ‘‘the officers and com...
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The Cultural Logic of Euthanasia: “Sad Fancyings” in Herman Melville's “Bartleby”

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 777–806.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-4-777
Published: 01 December 2004
... See David J. Rothman, The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Dis- order in the New Republic, rev. ed. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1990). 35 By juxtaposing cultural responses to successive cholera epidemics, Charles E. Rosenberg has shown that disease in the 1830s was imagined...
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The Information Isolation Trope: Isolation, Infection, and Information Silos in Early American Literature

Kacy Dowd Tillman
American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 325–353.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11398647
Published: 01 September 2024
... . 2016 . “ Mapping a Demon Malady: Cholera Maps and Affect in 1832 .” Common-Place 17 , no. 1 . http://commonplace.online/article/mapping-a-demon-malady/ . Schuetze Sarah . 2018 . “ Carrying Home the Enemy: Smallpox and Revolution in American Love and Letters, 1775–1776 .” Early American...
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Libertinism and Authorship in America's Early Republic

Bryce Traister
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 1–30.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-1
Published: 01 March 2000
...’’ Americas (republican and liberal) available to novel-readingAmericans. 4 In such ‘‘political’’ accounts of Arthur Mervyn, the novel’s historical aspects— particularly its depiction of the 1793 cholera epidemic—take...
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“I Want a Real Coon”: Mark Twain and Late-Nineteenth-Century Ethnic Caricature

Henry B. Wonham
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 117–152.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-117
Published: 01 March 2000
... of Mark Twain’s more fanciful variations on the theme of ethnic caricature, he imagines himself as a cholera germ injected into the blood stream of a ‘‘hoary and moulderingold bald- headed tramp’’ named Blitzowski, who...
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Impostors of Freedom: Southern White Manhood, Hypodermic Morphine, and E. P. Roe's Without a Home

Susan Zieger
American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 527–554.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-021
Published: 01 September 2008
... Medical Monthly in 1885, told his fellow physicians, “[G]ive a person suffering with that torturing disease [cholera] a puncture of morphia and atropia if you want him to rise up and call you blessed forever”; Manhood, Morphine, and Roe’s Without a Home  535 but he also warned...
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“Geographical Morality”: Place and the Problem of Patriotism in John W. De Forest's Civil War Realism

Stephanie LeMenager
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 555–582.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-026
Published: 01 September 2009
... as endurance.42 But De Forest also makes clear that the enduring body of the soldier is not nationalized or “made American” in its descent to the earth. Battle is “like being in a rich cholera district at the height of the sea- son,” he warns. This metaphor is literalized...
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