Book ID: CBB048634164

Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire (2018)

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Howell, Jessica (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 252
Language: English

The impact of malaria on humankind has been profound. Focusing on depictions of this iconic 'disease of empire' in nineteenth-century and postcolonial fiction, Jessica Howell shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Henry James, H. Rider Haggard, Olive Schreiner and Rudyard Kipling did not simply adopt the discourses of malarial containment and cure offered by colonial medicine. Instead, these authors adapted and rewrote some common associations with malarial images such as swamps, ruins, mosquitoes, blood, and fever. They also made use of the unique potential of fiction by incorporating chronic, cyclical illness, bodily transformation and adaptation within the very structures of their novels. Howell's study also examines the postcolonial literature of Amitav Ghosh and Derek Walcott, arguing that these authors use the multivalent and subversive potential of malaria in order to rewrite the legacies of colonial medicine.

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Authors & Contributors
Beattie, James
Fitzpatrick, Kieran
Erik Grimmer-Solem
Brescius, Moritz von
Skeehan, Danielle C.
Pereira, Hugo Silveira
Concepts
Colonialism
Imperialism
Malaria
Medicine and culture
Great Britain, colonies
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
16th century
Places
India
Great Britain
Atlantic world
South Asia
Hong Kong
Central Asia
Institutions
East India Company (English)
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