Editing Epidemic typhus (section)

===Literature===
* (1847) In ''[[Jane Eyre]]'' by [[Charlotte Brontë]], an outbreak of typhus occurs in Jane's school Lowood, highlighting the unsanitary conditions the girls live in.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Jack |title=Was It Really Typhus? |journal=Brontë Studies |date=2002 |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=49–53 |doi=10.1179/bst.2002.27.1.49|s2cid=161282182 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Sorkin |first1=Amy Davidson |title=The Fever Room: Epidemics and Social Distancing in 'Bleak House' and 'Jane Eyre' |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-fever-room-epidemics-and-social-distancing-in-bleak-house-and-jane-eyre |magazine=The New Yorker |date=2020 |language=en-us |archive-date=2021-05-13 |access-date=2021-04-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513224630/https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-fever-room-epidemics-and-social-distancing-in-bleak-house-and-jane-eyre |url-status=live }}</ref>
* (1862) In ''[[Fathers and Sons (novel)|Fathers and Sons]]'' by [[Ivan Turgenev]], Evgeny Bazarov dissects a local peasant and dies after contracting typhus.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Patterson |first1=K David |title=Typhus and its control in Russia, 1870–1940 |journal=Medical History |date=1993 |volume=37 |issue=4 |pages=361–381 |doi=10.1017/S0025727300058725|pmid=8246643 |pmc=1036775 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* (1886) In the [[short story]] "Excellent People" by [[Anton Chekhov]], typhus kills a [[Russia]]n provincial.<ref>{{cite book |last=Chekhov |first=Anton Pavlovich |contributor-last=Coulehan |contributor-first=Jack |editor1-last=Coulehan |editor1-first=Jack |title=Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales |date=2003 |publisher=Kent State University Press |location=Kent, Ohio |isbn=0-87338-780-5 |page=185 |contribution=Comments on ''Chekhov's Doctors''}}</ref>
* (1886) In ''The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous'' by [[George Augustus Henry Sala]]: "We Convicts were all had to the Grate, for the Knight and Alderman would not venture further in, for fear of the Gaol Fever;"{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}
* (1890) In ''[[How the Other Half Lives]]'' by [[Jacob Riis]], the effects of typhus fever and smallpox on "Jewtown" are described.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Markel |first1=Howard |title=Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892 |date=1999 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore |isbn=0-8018-6180-2 |page=48 |chapter=The City Responds to the Threat of Typhus}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Nelkin |first1=Dorothy |last2=Gilman |first2=Sander L. |editor1-last=Mack |editor1-first=Arien |title=In Time of Plague: The History and Social Consequences of Lethal Epidemic Disease |date=1991 |publisher=New York University Press |location=New York |isbn=0-8147-5485-6 |page=44 |chapter=Placing Blame for Devastating Disease}}</ref>
* (1935) [[Hans Zinsser]]'s ''[[Rats, Lice and History]]'', although a touch outdated on the science, contains many useful cross-references to classical and historical impact of typhus.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}
* (1940) in ''[[The Don Flows Home to the Sea]]'' by [[Mikhail Sholokhov]], numerous characters contract typhus during the [[Russian Civil War]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Russian epic |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-539558344/view?sectionId=nla.obj-541391932&partId=nla.obj-539558849#page/n1/mode/1up |date=1941-01-01 |work=[[The Bulletin (Australian periodical)|The Bulletin]] |issue=3177 |volume=62 |page=2 |archive-date=2023-12-19 |access-date=2023-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231219194515/https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-539558344/view?sectionId=nla.obj-541391932&partId=nla.obj-539558849#page/n1/mode/1up |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Sholokov |first=Mikhail |title=The Don Flows Home to the Sea |publisher=Putnam & Co. |year=1940 |location=London |page=192 |language=en}}</ref>
* (1946) In [[Viktor Frankl]]'s ''[[Man's Search for Meaning]]'', Frankl, a Nazi concentration camp prisoner and trained psychiatrist, treats fellow prisoners for delirium due to typhus, while being occasionally  affected with the disease himself.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pytell |first1=T. E. |title=Redeeming the Unredeemable: Auschwitz and ''Man's Search for Meaning'' |journal=Holocaust and Genocide Studies |date=2003 |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=94–95 |doi=10.1093/hgs/17.1.89 |id={{Project MUSE|43137}}}}</ref>
* (1955) In [[Vladimir Nabokov]]'s ''[[Lolita]]'', Humbert Humbert's childhood sweetheart, Annabel Leigh, dies of typhus.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Schweighauser|first1=Philipp|author-link=Philipp Schweighauser|date=1999|title=Discursive Killings: Intertextuality, Aestheticization, and Death in Nabokov's 'Lolita'|journal=Amerikastudien / American Studies|volume=44|issue=2|pages=255–267|jstor=41157458}}</ref>
* (1956) In ''[[Doctor Zhivago (novel)|Doctor Zhivago]]'' by [[Boris Pasternak]], the main character contracts epidemic typhus in the winter following the [[Russian Revolution (1917)|Russian Revolution]], while living in [[Moscow]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mossman |first1=Elliott |editor1-last=Fleishman |editor1-first=Lazar |title=Boris Pasternak and His Times: Selected Papers from the Second International Symposium on Pasternak |date=1989 |publisher=Berkeley Slavic Specialties |location=Berkeley |isbn=0-933884-56-7 |pages=386–397 |chapter=Toward a Poetics of the Novel ''Doctor Zhivago'': The Fourth Typhus}}</ref>
* (1964) In ''[[Night (Edgar Hilsenrath novel)|Nacht]]'' (novel) by Edgar Hilsenrath, characters imprisoned in a ghetto in Transnistria during World War II are portrayed infected with and dying of epidemic typhus.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stenberg |first1=Peter |title=Memories of the Holocaust Edgar Hilsenrath and the Fiction of Genocide |journal=Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte |date=1982 |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=277–289 |doi=10.1007/BF03375427|s2cid=151862296 }}</ref>
* (1978) In [[Patrick O'Brian]]'s novel ''[[Desolation Island (novel)|Desolation Island]]'', an outbreak of "gaol-fever" strikes the crew while sailing aboard the ''Leopard''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=West |first1=Louis Jolyon |editor1-last=Cunningham |editor1-first=A. E. |title=Patrick O'Brian: Critical Essays and a Bibliography |date=1994 |publisher=W.W. Norton |location=New York |isbn=0-393-03626-X |pages=100–101 |chapter=The Medical World of Dr Stephen Maturin}}</ref>
* (1980–1991) In ''[[Maus]]'' by [[Art Spiegelman]], Vladek Spiegelman contracts typhus during his imprisonment at the [[Dachau concentration camp]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Philip |title=Reading Art Spiegelman |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |page=57 |chapter=Historiography and Survival in Maus |doi=10.4324/9781315665542-9 |series=Routledge Advances in Comics Studies|doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |isbn=9781315665542 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=McGlothlin |first1=Erin |title=No Time like the Present: Narrative and Time in Art Spiegelman's ''Maus'' |journal=Narrative |date=2003 |volume=11 |issue=2 |page=197 |doi=10.1353/nar.2003.0007 |jstor=20107309 |s2cid=146408018 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20107309 |archive-date=2021-04-22 |access-date=2021-04-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422013247/https://www.jstor.org/stable/20107309 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* (1982) There is a typhus epidemic in Chile graphically described in ''[[The House of the Spirits]]'' by [[Isabel Allende]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Jackson |first1=Mary-Garland |title=A Psychological Portrait of Three Female Characters in ''La casa de los espíritus'' |journal=Letras Femeninas |date=1994 |volume=20 |issue=1/2 |pages=59–70 |jstor=23022635 }}</ref>
* (1996) In [[Andrea Barrett]]'s novella ''[[Ship Fever]]'', the characters struggle with a typhus outbreak at the Canadian Grosse Isle Quarantine Station during 1847.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dale |first1=Corinne H. |title=Those Filthy Irish: Dis-ease in Andrea Barrett's Short Story "Ship Fever" |journal=Journal of the Short Story in English |date=2000 |volume=35 |pages=99–108 |url=https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/572 |archive-date=2021-04-24 |access-date=2021-04-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424142605/https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/572 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Livingston |first1=Katherine |title=Also Noteworthy: ''Ship Fever and Other Stories'' |journal=Science |date=1996 |volume=274 |issue=5292 |page=1478 |doi=10.1126/science.274.5292.1478a}}</ref>
* (2001) [[Lynn Morris|Lynn]] and [[Gilbert Morris]]' novel ''[[Where Two Seas Met (novel)|Where Two Seas Met]]'' portrays an outbreak of typhus on the island of Bequia in the Grenadines, in 1869.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}
* (2004) In [[Neal Stephenson]]'s ''[[The System of the World (novel)|The System Of The World]]'', a fictionalized [[Sir Isaac Newton]] dies of "gaol fever" before being resurrected by [[Daniel Waterhouse]].{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}