04140oam 22006015 450 991051054490332120231121181134.03-030-84717-910.1007/978-3-030-84717-3(CKB)5340000000068658EBL6816746(AU-PeEL)EBL6816746(MiAaPQ)EBC6816746(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/74863(DE-He213)978-3-030-84717-3(EXLCZ)99534000000006865820211126d2022 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEmpire under the microscope parasitology and the British literary imagination, 1885-1935 /Emilie Taylor-Pirie1st ed. 2022.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2022.1 online resource (303 pages)Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,2634-64433-030-84716-0 1. Introduction: Stories of Science and Empire -- 2. The Knights of Science: Medicine and Mythology -- 3. Expeditions into ‘Central Man’: Imperial Romance, Tropical Medicine, and Heroic Masculinity -- 4. Detecting the Diagnosis: Parasitology, Crime Fiction, and the British Medical Gaze -- 5. Imperial Aetiologies: Violence, Sleeping Sickness, and the Colonial Encounter -- 6. Microbial Empires: Active Transmission Strategies and Postcolonial Critique -- 7. Epilogue: Pan Narrans.This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor-Pirie examines a wealth of archival material including medical lectures, scientific publications, popular biography, and personal and professional correspondence, alongside novels, poems, newspaper articles, and political speeches, to excavate the shared vocabularies of literature and medicine. She demonstrates how forms such as poetry and biography; genres such as imperial romance and detective fiction; and modes such as adventure and the Gothic, together informed how tropical diseases, their parasites, and their vectors, were understood in relation to race, gender, and nation. From Ancient Greece, to King Arthur’s Knights, to the detective work of Sherlock Holmes, parasitologists manipulated literary and historical forms of knowledge in their professional self-fashioning to create a modern mythology that has a visible legacy in relationships between science and society today. Emilie Taylor-Pirie is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has a BSc in Biology and higher degrees in the humanities.Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,2634-6443English literature19th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish literature20th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and medicineGreat BritainHistory19th centuryLiterature and medicineGreat BritainHistory20th centuryMedical parasitologyHistory19th centuryMedical parasitologyHistory20th centuryEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and medicineHistoryLiterature and medicineHistoryMedical parasitologyHistoryMedical parasitologyHistory823.8093561823.8093561Taylor-Pirie Emilie1239561AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910510544903321Empire under the Microscope2876049UNINA