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

By Emilie Taylor-Pirie

Book Overview

1. Introduction: Stories of Science and Empire2. The Knights of Science: Medicine and Mythology3. Expeditions into 'Central Man': Imperial Romance, Tropical Medicine, and Heroic Masculinity4. Detecting the Diagnosis: Parasitology, Crime Fiction, and the British Medical Gaze5. Imperial Aetiologies: Violence, Sleeping Sickness, and the Colonial Encounter6. Microbial Empires: Active Transmission Strategies and Postcolonial Critique7. Epilogue: Pan Narrans

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030847160
• ISBN13: 9783030847166
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"