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Rooted in American Studies and the Medical Humanities, the study is situated at the interface of American medicine, literature, and visuality. As a literary history of yellow fever epidemics, it presents the ideological, socio-political, visual, and cultural processing of the disease from the late 18th until the end of the 19th century Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Representing Yellow Fever: Contagion, Crisis, and Control -- 1.1 Approaches to Reading Yellow Fever Texts -- 1.2 Yellow Fever Fiction as Symbolic Action -- 1.3 Conceptualizing Yellow Fever Representations: Nation, Gender, and Race -- 1.4 Etiology and History of Yellow Fever -- 1.5 Making Yellow Fever American: Medical Discourses and Atlantic Conversations -- 1.6 Perspectivizing Yellow Fever Historiography and Literature -- 2 Yellow Fever in 1793-A Case in Point: Resolving Crises and Building the Nation 2.1 Introducing Yellow Fever in 1793 -- 2.2 Infecting the Nation: Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn, or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 (1799/1800) -- 2.3 Political Dimensions: Matthew Carey's Short Account (1793) and Absalom Jones and Richard Allen's Narrative (1794) -- 2.4 Looking Back to 1793: The Philadelphia Epidemic in/and Cultural Memory -- 2.5 Yellow Fever and the Nation -- 3 Displaying Disease: Yellow Fever Visualized -- 3.1 Picturing Yellow Fever -- 3.2 Establishing an Etiology and Iconography of Pictured Disease 3.3 Yellow Fever under the Touristic or Distant Gaze: An Aesthetics of the Destructive Sublime -- 3.4 Capturing Yellow Fever on Camera -- 3.5 Visual Functionalizations of Yellow Fever -- 4 Gendered Accounts of Yellow Fever -- 4.1 Women, Writing, and Yellow Fever -- 4.2 Between Nostalgia and Women's Rights: Mary Faith Floyd's The Nereid (1871) -- 4.3 Yellow Fever and the Nursing Experience: Wesley Bradshaw's Angel Agnes (1873) and Mattie Stephenson (1873) -- 4.4 "Volunteers to the fever district": Reversing Gender Roles in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's "Zerviah Hope" (1880) 4.5 "The fever creeping into her veins": Yellow Fever as Liminal Experience in Mollie E. M. Davis's The Queen's Garden (1900) -- 4.6 The Transformative Potential of Yellow Fever Narratives -- 5 Race and Racial Relations in Yellow Fever Writing -- 5.1 Theorizing Yellow Fever and Race -- 5.2 Yellow Fever at Sea -- 5.3 New Orleans: Race Capital, Disease Capital -- 5.4 Yellow Fever and the African American Experience -- 6 Conclusion -- 7 Bibliography -- 7.1 Yellow Fever Fiction, Poetry, and Drama 1793-1916 -- 7.2 Yellow Fever Fiction of the Late Twentieth and Twenty-First Century -- 8 Works Cited 9 Index
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