Empire under the Microscope : Parasitology and the British Literary Imagination, 1885-1935.

By: Taylor-Pirie, EmilieMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine SeriesPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021Copyright date: �2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (303 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783030847173Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Empire under the MicroscopeDDC classification: 823.8093561 LOC classification: PN760.5-769Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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