Maureen Tuthill is Associate Professor of English and A.P. Green Endowed Fellow in English at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, USA. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Literature of the Early American Republic, and Early American Literature.

• 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.-

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