Health And Sickness In The Early American Novel Social Affection And Eighteenthcentury Medicine Palgrave Studies In Literature, Science And Medicine

Preface.-Acknowledgments.-Introduction.-1.A Very Unfeeling World: The Failure of Social Healing in Rowson's America.-2.Your Health and My Happiness: Sickness and Health in The Coquette and Female Quixotism.-3.The Best Means of Retaining Health: Self-determined Health and Social Discipline in Early America.-4.The Means of Subsistence: Health, Wealth, and Social Affection in a YellowFever World.-5.The Learned Doctor: Tyler's Literary Endorsement of a Federalist Elite.-6.Some Yankee Non-sense about Humanity: Hiding Away African Health in Early American Fiction.-Epilogue.-Notes.-Bibliography.-Index.-