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Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire
Jessica Howell
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2019
主題
History / World
History / Historical Geography
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General
Medical / Infectious Diseases
Medical / Forensic Medicine
Medical / History
Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Social Science / Disease & Health Issues
ISBN
1108484689
9781108484688
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Y8h6DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.