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 Yellow Fever 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.-.