... of the outbreak narrative and its privileging of containment as the solution to emerging infections. Instead, opportunities arise to explore how data about the history of present-day structural inequities offer better ways to combat the deleterious effects of outbreaks. Through an analysis of Harriet Wilson’s...

... provides a narrative structure strikingly different from that of a heroic tale of containing an emerging infection.” The essay then focuses specifically on Harriet Wilson’s 1859 Our Nig (a semiautobiographical novel considered one of the first novels published by an African American woman). The novel has...

... thematic device to organize their text. Thus Hill and Hatch provide in two substantial chapters a thorough discus­ sion of anti-slavery plays and minstrel shows. Harriet Beecher Stowe s most famous work is of interest to many black theater scholars, n o t only because it is the most rec­ ognized anti...

..., but that they cannot help it—they cannot control themselves.” 17 If 1800 has been deemed a watershed moment in the “discovery” of addiction, the essays in “Early Addictions” by Withington, Jeffrey Wilson, and Cree instead reveal the rich variety of discourses on addiction before this point. The term drunkard...

... Spots (1902), is a response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. It is less often noted that The Clansman (1905), the second novel in the trilogy, is Dixon's self-conscious response to Albion W.Tourgée's, A Fool's Errand (1879), a sem i-autobiographical account of the judge's life...