Transported to Botany Bay: class, national identity, and the literary figure of the Australian convict

IF 0.3 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
T. Meyer
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mated status prized and precarious. In other words, immunocapital was much like other forms of capital in the nineteenth century, inherently suspect and unstable. Similarly, Necropolis and the nineteenth-century residents of New Orleans side-stepped the oft-discussed contagionist debates of the era by simply ignoring any attempt to stop the ailment. Not only did New Orleans refuse quarantine (the contagionist approach) and sanitation (the anticontagionists’ favorite) but ridiculed those who tried to avoid the presumably inevitable disease. Those with proven immunity could leave during the epidemics but those like newly-arrived Sylvester Larned in 1819 faced harsh criticism for attempting to avoid the disease by leaving and refusing to face acclimation (Olivarius 2022, 71–73). No white newcomer could truly become part of the city without accepting the rules of immunocapitalism: acclamation, resistance to structural improvement, and support of race-based slavery. Throughout the book Olivarius implicitly and explicitly tells her audience that yellow fever mattered deeply in New Orleans, shaped notions of belonging, and created racial categories. The threat of sickness or death, survival, and racialized experiences around the virus shaped the city and its society. Understanding the power of immunocapital in New Orleans matters not only to historians of medicine or public health, but to anyone who considers the role of the city, cotton, or slavery in American history. Moreover, her inclusion of individual stories, clear narration, and general lack of jargon makes it an excellent example of a book that can successfully be read across subfields.
被运往植物学湾:阶级、民族身份和澳大利亚罪犯的文学形象
配偶身份珍贵而不稳定。换言之,免疫资本与19世纪的其他形式的资本非常相似,本质上是可疑和不稳定的。同样,Necropolis和19世纪新奥尔良的居民无视任何阻止疾病的尝试,避开了那个时代经常讨论的传染病辩论。新奥尔良不仅拒绝隔离(传染主义方法)和卫生(反传染主义者的最爱),还嘲笑那些试图避免这种可能不可避免的疾病的人。那些被证明具有免疫力的人可以在疫情期间离开,但像1819年新来的西尔维斯特·拉内德这样的人,因为试图通过离开并拒绝适应环境来避免疾病而受到严厉批评(Olivarius 2022,71–73)。如果不接受免疫资本主义的规则:鼓掌、抵制结构改善和支持基于种族的奴隶制,任何白人新人都不可能真正成为这座城市的一部分。在整本书中,Olivarius含蓄而明确地告诉她的观众,黄热病在新奥尔良非常重要,塑造了归属观念,并创造了种族类别。疾病或死亡的威胁、生存以及围绕病毒的种族化经历塑造了这座城市及其社会。了解新奥尔良免疫资本的力量不仅对医学或公共卫生历史学家很重要,对任何考虑城市、棉花或奴隶制在美国历史上的作用的人也很重要。此外,她包含了个人故事、清晰的叙述和普遍缺乏行话,这使她成为一本可以跨子领域成功阅读的书的优秀例子。
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期刊介绍: Nineteenth-Century Contexts is committed to interdisciplinary recuperations of “new” nineteenth centuries and their relation to contemporary geopolitical developments. The journal challenges traditional modes of categorizing the nineteenth century by forging innovative contextualizations across a wide spectrum of nineteenth century experience and the critical disciplines that examine it. Articles not only integrate theories and methods of various fields of inquiry — art, history, musicology, anthropology, literary criticism, religious studies, social history, economics, popular culture studies, and the history of science, among others.
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