LEADER 04140oam 22006015 450 001 9910510544903321 005 20231121181134.0 010 $a3-030-84717-9 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-84717-3 035 $a(CKB)5340000000068658 035 $aEBL6816746 035 $a(AU-PeEL)EBL6816746 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6816746 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/74863 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-84717-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)995340000000068658 100 $a20211126d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEmpire under the microscope $eparasitology and the British literary imagination, 1885-1935 /$fEmilie Taylor-Pirie 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (303 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,$x2634-6443 311 0 $a3-030-84716-0 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aThis open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor-Pirie examines a wealth of archival material including medical lectures, scientific publications, popular biography, and personal and professional correspondence, alongside novels, poems, newspaper articles, and political speeches, to excavate the shared vocabularies of literature and medicine. She demonstrates how forms such as poetry and biography; genres such as imperial romance and detective fiction; and modes such as adventure and the Gothic, together informed how tropical diseases, their parasites, and their vectors, were understood in relation to race, gender, and nation. From Ancient Greece, to King Arthur?s Knights, to the detective work of Sherlock Holmes, parasitologists manipulated literary and historical forms of knowledge in their professional self-fashioning to create a modern mythology that has a visible legacy in relationships between science and society today. Emilie Taylor-Pirie is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has a BSc in Biology and higher degrees in the humanities. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,$x2634-6443 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and medicine$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLiterature and medicine$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMedical parasitology$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMedical parasitology$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and medicine$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and medicine$xHistory 615 0$aMedical parasitology$xHistory 615 0$aMedical parasitology$xHistory 676 $a823.8093561 676 $a823.8093561 700 $aTaylor-Pirie$b Emilie$01239561 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910510544903321 996 $aEmpire under the Microscope$92876049 997 $aUNINA