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Empire Under the Microscope

Parasitology and the British Literary Imagination, 1885–1935

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Palgrave Macmillan


Paru le : 2021-11-26



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This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor-Pirie examines a wealth of archival material including medical lectures, scientific publications, popular biography, and personal and professional correspondence, alongside novels, poems, newspaper articles, and political speeches, to excavate the shared vocabularies of literature and medicine. She demonstrates how forms such as poetry and biography; genres such as imperial romance and detective fiction; and modes such as adventure and the Gothic, together informed how tropical diseases, their parasites, and their vectors, were understood in relation to race, gender, and nation. From Ancient Greece, to King Arthur’s Knights, to the detective work of Sherlock Holmes, parasitologists manipulated literary and historical forms of knowledge in their professional self-fashioning to create a modern mythology that has a visible legacy in relationships between science and society today.
Pages
294 pages
Collection
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Parution
2021-11-26
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783030847166
EAN PDF
9783030847173
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2
Nombre pages imprimables
29
Taille du fichier
6164 Ko
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EAN EPUB
9783030847173
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
29
Taille du fichier
5755 Ko
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Emilie Taylor-Pirie is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has a BSc in Biology and higher degrees in the humanities.

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