Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire

Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire

Howell, Jessica

Cambridge University Press

10/2018

252

Dura

Inglês

9781108484688

15 a 20 dias

540

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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.