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Malaria and Victorian fictions of empire / Jessica Howell, Texas A & M University.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howell, Jessica, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Malaria--History.
- Malaria.
- Medicine in literature.
- Malaria--history.
- Colonialism--history.
- Medicine in Literature.
- Culture.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- History.
- United Kingdom.
- Diseases in literature.
- English fiction.
- Malaria--Social aspects.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Symbolism in literature.
- Great Britain.
- Medical Subjects:
- Malaria--history.
- Colonialism--history.
- Medicine in Literature.
- Culture.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- United Kingdom.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 238 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, Ny : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "The impact of malaria on humankind has been profound. Focusing on depictions of this iconic 'disease of empire' in nineteenth-century and postcolonial fiction, Jessica Howell shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Henry James, H. Rider Haggard, Olive Schreiner, and Rudyard Kipling did not simply adopt the discourses of malarial containment and cure offered by colonial medicine. Instead, these authors adapted and rewrote some common associations with malarial images such as swamps, ruins, mosquitoes, blood, and fever. They also made use of the unique potential of fiction by incorporating chronic, cyclical illness, bodily transformation and adaptation within the very structures of their novels. Howell's study also examines the postcolonial literature of Amitav Ghosh and Derek Walcott, arguing that these authors make use of the multivalent and subversive potential of malaria in order to rewrite the legacies of colonial medicine"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-220) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781108484688
- 1108484689
- OCLC:
- 1047615172
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