Malaria and Victorian fictions of empire
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- ISBN: 1108484689
- ISBN: 9781108462457
- ISBN: 9781108484688
- ISBN: 1108586961
- ISBN: 9781108586962
- ISBN: 1108693229
- ISBN: 9781108693226
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 238 pages).
remote - Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 -- Index. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 19, 2019). |
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