Romanticism and colonial disease
by
Bewell, Alan, 1951-
Title
:
Romanticism and colonial disease
Author
:
Bewell, Alan, 1951-
ISBN
:
9780801862250
9780801877346
Personal Author
:
Bewell, Alan, 1951-
Publication Information
:
Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Physical Description
:
xv, 373 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.
Series
:
Medicine & Culture.
Contents
:
Contents -- List of Illustrations ix -- Preface xi -- Introduction: Colonialism and Disease 1 -- 1 Romantic Medical Geography: Empire, Disease, and the -- Construction of Pathogenic Environments 27 -- 2 "Voices of Dead Complaint": Colonial Military -- Disease Narratives 66 -- 3 Colonial Dietary Anxieties 131 -- 4 Keats and the Geography of Consumption 161 -- 5 Joseph Ritchie and "The Diseased Heart of Africa" 194 -- 6 Percy Bysshe Shelley and Revolutionary Climatology 205 -- Cholera, Sanitation, and the Colonial Representation -- of India 242 -- 8 Tropical Invalids 277 -- 9 "All the World Has the Plague": Mary Shelley's The Last Man 296 -- Notes 315 -- Works Cited 335 -- Index 365.
Subject Term
:
Colonies in literature.
Diseases in literature.
Diseases -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
Medicine -- History -- 18th century.
Medicine -- History -- 19th century.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
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| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168025449691 | 610.9171241 B572R 1999 | 1 |