The Retrospective Raj [electronic resource] : Medicine, Literature and History after Empire

Author: Goodman, Sam
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 pages)

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Retrospective Diagnosis: Medicine and Post-Imperial Literature -- Chapter 1 Colonial Conditions: On Being Ill in the Anglo-Indian Novel -- Chapter 2 Surgery for the Novel: Medical Practitioners in Anglo-Indian Fiction -- Chapter 3 Know Your Place: Space, Environment and Medicine -- Chapter 4 Death by the Bottle or the Spoon: Diet, Health and Well-Being -- Chapter 5 No Such Thing as History Nowadays: Medicine, Health and the Legacy of Empire -- Conclusion: Imperial Sunsets -- Bibliography -- Index

Summary

Explores the 20th century literary revival of Empire and the post-imperial novel through a critical medical humanities lens.

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9781474448765 (electronic bk.)
1474448763 (electronic bk.)

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Paterno Family Librarian Endowment in Literature

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