Romanticism and colonial disease

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Romanticism and colonial disease

Alan Bewell

(Medicine & culture / series editor Sander L. Gilman)

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999

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

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ISBN 9780801862250

内容説明

Colonial experience was profoundly structured by disease, as expansion brought people into contact with new and deadly maladies. Pathogens were exchanged on a scale far greater than ever before. Native populations were decimated by wave after wave of Old World diseases. In turn colonists suffered disease and mortality rates much higher than in their home countries. Not only disease, but the idea of disease and the response to it, deeply affected both colonizers and those colonized. In this volume, Alan Bewell focuses on the British response to colonial disease as medical and literary writers, in a period roughly from the end of the 18th century to the middle of the 19th century, grappled to understand this new world of disease. Bewell finds this literature characterized by increasing anxiety about the global dimensions of disease and the epidemiological cost of empire. Colonialism infiltrated the heart of Romantic literature, affectng not only the Romatics' framing of disease but also their understanding of England's position in the colonial world. This study of the massive impact of colonial disease on British culture charts the emergence of the idea of the colonial world as a pathogenic space in need of a cure and examines the role of disease in the making and unmaking of national identities.
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: [pbk.] ISBN 9780801877346

内容説明

Colonial experience was profoundly structured by disease, as expansion brought people into contact with new and deadly maladies. Pathogens were exchanged on a scale far greater than ever before. Native populations were decimated by wave after wave of Old World diseases. In turn, colonists suffered disease and mortality rates much higher than in their home countries. Not only disease, but the idea of disease, and the response to it, deeply affected both colonizers and those colonized. In Romanticism and Colonial Disease, Alan Bewell focuses on the British response to colonial disease as medical and literary writers, in a period roughly from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century, grappled to understand this new world of disease. Bewell finds this literature characterized by increasing anxiety about the global dimensions of disease and the epidemiological cost of empire. Colonialism infiltrated the heart of Romantic literature, affecting not only the Romantics' framing of disease but also their understanding of England's position in the colonial world. The first major study of the massive impact of colonial disease on British culture during the Romantic period, Romanticism and Colonial Disease charts the emergence of the idea of the colonial world as a pathogenic space in need of a cure, and examines the role of disease in the making and unmaking of national identities.

目次

List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Colonialism and Disease Chapter 1. Romantic Medical Geography: Empire, Disease, and the Construction of Pathogenic Environments Chapter 2. "Voices of Dead Complaint": Colonial Military Disease Narratives Chapter 3. Colonial Dietary Anxieties Chapter 4. Keats and the Geography of Consumption Chapter 5. Joseph Ritchie and "The Diseased Heart of Africa" Chapter 6. Percy Bysshe Shelley and Revolutionary Climatology Chapter 7. Cholera, Sanitation, and the Colonial Representation of India Chapter 8. Tropical Invalids Chapter 9. "All the World Has the Plague": Mary Shelley's The Last Man Notes Works Cited Index

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