Representation in Other Media
Several novels have explored the Philadelphia epidemic, including the following:
- Charles Brockden Brown, Arthur Mervyn (1799)
- Silas Weir Mitchell, The Red City (1909)
- Laurie Halse Anderson, Fever 1793 (2000), young adult novel set in Philadelphia
The following deals with a 19th-century epidemic of yellow fever in New Orleans:
- Josh Russell, Yellow Jack, 2000, novel set in New Orleans in the 1840s before the Civil War
Read more about this topic: Yellow Fever Epidemic Of 1793
Famous quotes containing the words representation in and/or media:
“People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent “the past” and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so—called educational system, which is nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one’s ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the “educational system” are the prime sources of racism in the United States.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)