Natural disasters and Victorian empire : famines, fevers and literary cultures of South Asia
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Natural disasters and Victorian empire : famines, fevers and literary cultures of South Asia
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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Natural disasters and Victorian empire : famines, fevers and the literary cultures of South Asia
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"Arts & Humanities Research Council"
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-218) and index
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Description
Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire looks at the relationship between epidemics and famines in south Asia and Victorian literature and culture. It suggests that much of how we think today about disasters, state and society can be traced back to the 19th-century British imperial experience.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. The Empire of Disasters 2. Disaster Tourism - The Edens and Fanny Parks 3. Philip Meadows Taylor - The Bureaucrat as Healer 4. The Dead who did not Die - Rudyard Kipling and Cholera 5. Gendering Disaster - Flora Annie Steel Coda Bibliography
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