TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taylor-Pirie,Emilie
TI  - Empire under the Microscope: Parasitology and the British Literary Imagination, 1885-1935
T2  - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Series
SN  - 9783030847173
AV  - PN760.5-769 
U1  - 823.8093561 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing AG
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Empire Under the Microscope -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Empire Under the Microscope -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Stories of Science and Empire -- ScienceHumanities -- Medicine, Gender, and Nation -- Mapping Empire -- The Knights of Science: Medicine and Mythology -- Arthur and Empire -- Alexander, Shakespeare, and Apollo: Literary Metaphor and Scientific Idealism -- Descent into the East: Tropical Mythologies -- Fairy Tales and Afterlives -- Expeditions into 'Central Man': Imperial Romance, Tropical Medicine, and Heroic Masculinity -- Pioneers, Poets, and Prophets -- 'It's a Heroic Thing to Do': Exploring the Microscopic Frontier -- Fantasy Worlds and Fantasy Medicine -- 'Puny Carpet Knights' and Muscular Christianity -- Medicine as New Romance -- Detecting the Diagnosis: Parasitology, Crime Fiction, and the British Medical Gaze -- Heroes of Real Life: Medicine and Empire -- Medical Detectives and 20-20 Vision -- (Re)diagnosing the Colonial Encounter -- Criminal Natures -- Imperial Aetiologies: Violence, Sleeping Sickness, and the Colonial Encounter -- Stranger than Fiction -- Race and Illness -- Emotional Epidemiology -- Tropical Neurasthenia and 'White-Man Lethargy' -- Microbial Empires: Active Transmission Strategies and Postcolonial Critique -- The Violence of Medicine and the Fever of War -- Insect Wars and Microbial Thugs -- Vampires and Vectors -- Biting with Intent: Agency and Revenge -- Epilogue: Pan Narrans -- Bibliography -- Index
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