Abstract In 1866 cholera struck New York City for the third time in the nineteenth century; previous epidemics occurred in 1832 and 1849. With a population of over 1.1 million, one fourth of whom were immigrants, the city was starkly divided between New York City’s traditional elite class and predominantly Irish immigrants and African Americans living in the city’s most neglected quarters, which became the main sites for contagion. In this essay, I discuss the periodical coverage of the epidemic in multiple “literary” genres that were part of the news cycle of the time, a topic that has been relatively unexplored. Through news columns, prose, and narrative poems, some of the city’s leading newspapers and story papers circulated the discourse of popular science. These periodicals featured cross-genre works that merged traditional wind poetry with miasma theory, generating coverage that was both entertaining and informative.

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1866 年纽约市霍乱流行通过流行期刊和传染病理论

摘要 1866 年，霍乱在 19 世纪第三次袭击了纽约市；以前的流行病发生在 1832 年和 1849 年。 人口超过 110 万，其中四分之一是移民，这座城市在纽约市的传统精英阶层和主要是爱尔兰移民和居住在该市最被忽视的地区的非裔美国人之间形成了鲜明的分歧，成为传染的主要场所。在这篇文章中，我讨论了作为当时新闻周期一部分的多种“文学”体裁对流行病的定期报道，这是一个相对未被探索的话题。通过新闻专栏、散文和叙事诗，该市的一些主要报纸和故事论文传播了科普话语。