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The retrospective Raj : medicine, literature and history after empire / Sam Goodman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodman, Sam, 1980- author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh scholarship online.
- Edinburgh scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine in literature.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- The Retrospective Raj: Medicine, Literature & History After Empire undertakes a detailed analysis of the use of medicine as a recurrent and defining trope of post-imperial fiction published between 1950 and 1990. The book argues that during this crucial period of recent history, when the influence and prestige of the British Empire was nearing its end, a range of contemporary novelists including J.G. Farrell, Paul Scott, John Masters, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and Salman Rushdie identified and used medicine as a discursive paradigm through which to engage critically with the history, authority and legacy of the British Empire within their writing.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Retrospective Diagnosis: Medicine and Post-Imperial Literature
- Chapter 1 Colonial Conditions: On Being Ill in the Anglo-Indian Novel
- Chapter 2 Surgery for the Novel: Medical Practitioners in Anglo-Indian Fiction
- Chapter 3 Know Your Place: Space, Environment and Medicine
- Chapter 4 Death by the Bottle or the Spoon: Diet, Health and Well-Being
- Chapter 5 No Such Thing as History Nowadays: Medicine, Health and the Legacy of Empire
- Conclusion: Imperial Sunsets
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 17, 2022).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Goodman, Sam The Retrospective Raj
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-4877-1
- 1-3995-1347-8
- 1-4744-8935-4
- 1-4744-4876-3
- OCLC:
- 1298387481
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