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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458445903321

Autore

Bewell Alan <1951->

Titolo

Romanticism and colonial disease [[electronic resource] /] / Alan Bewell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore ; ; London, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999

ISBN

0-8018-7790-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (396 p.)

Collana

Medicine & culture

Disciplina

610/.9171/241

Soggetti

Diseases - Great Britain - Colonies - History

Romanticism - Great Britain

Diseases in literature

Colonies in literature

Medicine - History - 18th century

Medicine - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-363) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction Colonialism and Disease; One Romantic Medical Geography; Two ''Voices of Dead Complaint''; Three Colonial Dietary Anxieties; Four Keats and the Geography of Consumption; Five Joseph Ritchie and ''The Diseased Heart of Africa''; Six Percy Bysshe Shelley and Revolutionary Climatology; Seven Cholera, Sanitation, and the Colonial Representation of India; Eight Tropical Invalids; Nine ''All the World Has the Plague'': Mary Shelley's The Last Man; Notes; Works Cited; Index