Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire

ISBN-13: 9781108462457 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str.

Jessica (Texas A & M University) Howell

Opis

Study of malaria in literature and culture illuminates the legacies of nineteenth-century colonial medicine within narratives of illness.

Spis treści

List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Nationalism and acute malaria in transatlantic fiction: Charles Dickens and Henry James; 2. Malaria and the imperial romance: H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines; 3. Malarial feminisms: Olive Schreiner and the allegories of chronic disease; 4. The boy doctor of empire: malaria and mobility in Rudyard Kipling's Kim; 5. Rewriting the bite: the Calcutta chromosome, mosquitoes, and global health politics; Coda: towards a postcolonial health humanities; Bibliography.