Romanticism and colonial disease / Alan Bewell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bewell, Alan, 1951-

Series:

Medicine & culture.

Medicine & culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diseases--Great Britain--Colonies--History.

Diseases.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Diseases in literature.

Colonies in literature.

Medicine--History--18th century.

Medicine.

Medicine--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first major study of the massive impact of colonial disease on British culture during the Romantic period, Romanticism and Colonial Disease charts the emergence of the idea of the colonial world as a pathogenic space in need of a cure, and examines the role of disease in the making and unmaking of national identities.

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction Colonialism and Disease; One Romantic Medical Geography; Two ''Voices of Dead Complaint''; Three Colonial Dietary Anxieties; Four Keats and the Geography of Consumption; Five Joseph Ritchie and ''The Diseased Heart of Africa''; Six Percy Bysshe Shelley and Revolutionary Climatology; Seven Cholera, Sanitation, and the Colonial Representation of India; Eight Tropical Invalids; Nine ''All the World Has the Plague'': Mary Shelley's The Last Man; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-363) and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-7790-3

OCLC:

923190969