Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic by Thomas A. ApelThomas A. Apel, Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. x, 191 pp. $60.00 US (cloth).

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-287
Author(s):  
Shauna Devine
Keyword(s):  
Yellow Fever ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Early American Republic ◽  
Early American

Susanna Rowson’s Barbary Captivity Narrative, or the Struggle for the Freedom of American Women in Algiers

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 59-70
Author(s):  
Sabrina Zerar
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
Early American Republic ◽  
Sentimental Literature ◽  
Captivity Narrative ◽  
American Women ◽  
Early American ◽  
Gender Power ◽  
The Many

This research explores the feminist dimensions of Rowson's play, Slaves in Algiers or, a struggle for freedom (1794), from historicist and dialogical perspectives. More particularly, it looks at the play within the context of the politics of the early American republic to uncover how Rowson deploys the captivity of American sailors in Algiers (1785-1796) as a pretext to deconstrust the established gender power relations without hurting the sensibilities of her audience in its reference to the issue of black slavery. The research also unveils the many intertextual relationships that the play holds with the prevalent captivity culture of the day, sentimental literature, and more specifically with Cervantes’s Don Quixote.

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