This study focuses on the depictions of malaria in nineteenth-century and postcolonial fiction of writers such as Charles Dickens, Henry James, H. Rider Haggard, and Rudyard Kipling amongst others. It also examines the multivalent and subversive potential of the disease in postcolonial literature of writers such as Amitav Ghosh and Derek Walcott.
This study focuses on the depictions of malaria in nineteenth-century and postcolonial fiction of writers such as Charles Dickens, Henry James, H. Rider Haggard, and Rudyard Kipling amongst others. It also examines the multivalent and subversive potential of the disease in postcolonial literature of writers such as Amitav Ghosh and Derek Walcott.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Jessica Howell is Associate Professor of English at Texas A & M University. Her previous publications include Exploring Victorian Travel Literature: Disease, Race and Climate (2014) as well as numerous articles that have appeared in Literature and Medicine, Victorian Literature and Culture, Studies in Travel Writing, and the Journal of Commonwealth Literature.
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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.
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.
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