Archival (Yellow) Fever: The Letters of Kezia Payne DePelchin and E. Kate Heckle
Journal: Rice Digital Scholarship Archive (Rice University)
Year: 2011

s graduate seminar on Victorian fiction and historicism.This paper includes my analysis of the DePelchin/Heckle materials, a collection of writings by two female nurses serving in the 1878 Mississippi Valley Yellow Fever Epidemic; a meta-reflection on my experience in the archive; and proposals for two future research projects based my preliminary research.My first project, "Narrativizing Disease," explores how DePelchin in particular sought to establish herself as an authorial figure via elabor