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- W4289717943 abstract "Chapter 2, “Philadelphia’s Fevered Readers,” explores the literary aftermath of 1793’s yellow fever epidemic. Philadelphia was the young republic’s most cosmopolitan and diverse city. Yet its social landscape was fragmented and fragile, threatened by disease, economic instability, and national consolidation. The crisis of repeated fever outbreaks forced Philadelphians out of their religious and class circles toward a more connected urbanity. This chapter argues that in the wake of the epidemic, readers in Philadelphia initially bypassed realistic narratives of suffering, including printer Mathew Carey’s multiple <italic>Accounts of the Yellow Fever</italic> (1793–94) to seek the shared comfort of sympathy in the more generic tragedy of Susanna Rowson’s <italic>Charlotte, A Tale of Truth</italic> (1791, London; 1794, Philadelphia), the novel we now know as <italic>Charlotte Temple</italic>. Just as Carey found refuge in the theater, his customers eagerly immersed themselves in Rowson’s melodramatic text, making <italic>Charlotte</italic> the nation’s first bestselling novel. In <italic>Charlotte</italic> and Carey’s <italic>Accounts</italic>, an ethic of neighborliness emerges as a dynamic central to shaping early urban space. Both authors pit the city against the hinterlands and derive from the intimacy of cities made artificially small and white—<italic>Charlotte</italic>’s imagined colonial New-York, Carey’s isolated, depopulated Philadelphia—a model for a civic future that fictively elides the racial, ethnic, and linguistic diversity that characterized these actual cities, and against which commentators Absalom Jones and Richard Allen set their vision of Black citizenship through neighborly practice." @default.
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- W4289717943 title "Philadelphia’s Fevered Readers" @default.
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