Miraculous Plagues
An epidemiology of early New England narrative
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8071212 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cristobal Silva (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Publication date | 2011-08-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Miraculous plagues (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199743476.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4249164890 |
| ISBN | 9780199743476 |
| Open Library | OL24479312M |
| Google Books | bpPqTcxKVTgC |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
This book reimagines New England’s literary history by tracing seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century epidemics alongside the era of early colonial expansion, the Antinomian controversy, the evolution of the halfway covenant and jeremiad, and Boston’s 1721 inoculation controversy. Moving beyond familiar histories of New World epidemics (often referred to as the “virgin soil” model), the book identifies epidemiology as a generic category with specialized forms and conventions, and considers how regional and generational patterns of illness reposition our understanding of the relation between immunology and ideology in the formation of communal identity. Epidemiology functions as subject and method of analysis in the book: it describes those narratives that represent modes of infection, population distribution, and immunity, but, more germane to the field of literary criticism, it also describes a set of analytical practices for theorizing the translation of epidemic events into narrative and generic terms. Without denying epidemiology’s usefulness in combating contemporary epidemics, the book affirms its power to transform colonial spaces, and thus to reshape inquiries into the nature of community and identity; it offers critics new trajectories for analyzing late-twentieth- and early-twenty-first century epidemiology, and for rethinking illness and infection in terms of the geopolitics of medicine
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Genealogy · Geopolitics · Identity (music · Ideology · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Population · Power (physics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History of Science and Medicine · 17th century · 18th century · America · Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 · colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 · Colonies · Epidemics · Epidemics in literature · epidemiology · Great britain · Historiography · History · Narration · Narration (rhetoric) · new england · Social aspects · Sources · Demography · Gender Studies · Law
“The Fever and the Fetters”
Considering Epidemiology’s Need for Literary History
On Physical and Spiritual Recovery
Science and the Atlantic World in Early American Literary Studies
Toward an immunological turn in nineteenth‐century studies
Introduction
Memory’s Ends
The Gothic Origins of Global Health
Obeah and its others
Crises Narratives Defining the Covid-19 Pandemic
TouchingThe Scarlet Letter
Postexceptionalist Puritanism
| Citations per year | 0.86 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |