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Natural disasters and Victorian empire : famines, fevers and the literary cultures of South Asia
- Title
- Natural disasters and Victorian empire : famines, fevers and the literary cultures of South Asia / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee.
- Author
- Mukherjee, Upamanyu Pablo
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- vii, 221 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "How did the Victorians think about disasters such as famines and epidemic diseases? What was the relationship between such cataclysmic events and literary forms, styles and genres? In what way was thinking about disasters also crucial to practices of governance? Does the legacy of such Victorian thinking still shape our contemporary responses to 'natural' disasters? This book seeks to answer such questions by looking at a wide range of administrative, medical, historical, journalistic and literary texts written about Britain's key imperial possession in the 19th-century - south Asia. In doing so, it expands our ideas about Victorian literature, just as it reshapes our definitions of 'natural' disasters themselves"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-218) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. The Empire of Disasters -- 2. Disaster Tourism: The Edens and Fanny Parks -- 3. Philip Meadows Taylor: The Bureaucrat as Healer -- 4. 'The Dead who did not Die': Rudyard Kipling and Cholera -- 5. Gendering Disaster: Flora Annie Steel.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-1226
- ISBN
- 9781137001122 (hardback)
- 1137001127 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2013038119
- 40022949497
- OCLC
- 842208373
- Author
- Mukherjee, Upamanyu Pablo, author.
- Title
- Natural disasters and Victorian empire : famines, fevers and the literary cultures of South Asia / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee.
- Publisher
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-218) and index.
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- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022949497
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-1226