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Empire under the microscope : parasitology and the British literary imagination, 1885-1935
- Title
- Empire under the microscope : parasitology and the British literary imagination, 1885-1935 / Emilie Taylor-Pirie.
- Author
- Taylor-Pirie, Emilie
- Publication
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
- ©2022
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 294 pages : illustrations, portraits; 22 cm.
- Summary
- This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor-Pirie examines a wealth of archival material including medical lectures, scientific publications, popular biography, and personal and professional correspondence, alongside novels, poems, newspaper articles, and political speeches, to excavate the shared vocabularies of literature and medicine. She demonstrates how forms such as poetry and biography; genres such as imperial romance and detective fiction; and modes such as adventure and the Gothic, together informed how tropical diseases, their parasites, and their vectors, were understood in relation to race, gender, and nation--back cover.
- Series Statement
- Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine
- Uniform Title
- Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine.
- Subject
- 1800-1999
- Literature and medicine > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Literature and medicine > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Medical parasitology > History > 19th century
- Medical parasitology > History > 20th century
- English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- English literature
- Literature and medicine
- Medical parasitology
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-284) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: stores of sience and empire -- The knights of science: medicine and mythology -- Expeditions into 'central man': imperial romance, tropical medicine, and heroic masculinity -- Detecting the diagnosis: parasitology, crime fiction, and the British medical gaze -- Imperial aetiologies: violence, sleeping sickness, and the colonial encounter -- Microbial empires: active transmission strategies and postcolonial critique -- Epilogue: pan narrans -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFD 22-522
- ISBN
- 3030847160
- 9783030847166
- 3030847195
- 9783030847197
- OCLC
- 1260190842
- Author
- Taylor-Pirie, Emilie, author.
- Title
- Empire under the microscope : parasitology and the British literary imagination, 1885-1935 / Emilie Taylor-Pirie.
- Publisher
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicinePalgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-284) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFD 22-522