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Author | : Alan Bewell |
Publisher | : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Colonial experience was profoundly structured by disease, as expansion brought people into contact with new and deadly maladies. Pathogens were exchanged on a scale far greater than ever before. Native populations were decimated by wave after wave of Old World diseases. In turn, colonists suffered disease and mortality rates much higher than in their home countries. Not only disease, but the idea of disease, and the response to it, deeply affected both colonizers and those colonized. In Romanticism and Colonial Disease, Alan Bewell focuses on the British response to colonial disease as medical and literary writers, in a period roughly from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century, grappled to understand this new world of disease. Bewell finds this literature characterized by increasing anxiety about the global dimensions of disease and the epidemiological cost of empire. Colonialism infiltrated the heart of Romantic literature, affecting not only the Romantics' framing of disease but also their understanding of England's position in the colonial world. The first major study of the massive impact of colonial disease on British culture during the Romantic period, Romanticism and Colonial Disease charts the emergence of the idea of the colonial world as a pathogenic space in need of a cure, and examines the role of disease in the making and unmaking of national identities.
Author | : Alan Bewell |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2003-05-22 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0801877903 |
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Colonial experience was profoundly structured by disease, as expansion brought people into contact with new and deadly maladies. Pathogens were exchanged on a scale far greater than ever before. Native populations were decimated by wave after wave of Old World diseases. In turn, colonists suffered disease and mortality rates much higher than in their home countries. Not only disease, but the idea of disease, and the response to it, deeply affected both colonizers and those colonized. In Romanticism and Colonial Disease, Alan Bewell focuses on the British response to colonial disease as medical and literary writers, in a period roughly from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century, grappled to understand this new world of disease. Bewell finds this literature characterized by increasing anxiety about the global dimensions of disease and the epidemiological cost of empire. Colonialism infiltrated the heart of Romantic literature, affecting not only the Romantics' framing of disease but also their understanding of England's position in the colonial world. The first major study of the massive impact of colonial disease on British culture during the Romantic period, Romanticism and Colonial Disease charts the emergence of the idea of the colonial world as a pathogenic space in need of a cure, and examines the role of disease in the making and unmaking of national identities.
Author | : Alan Bewell |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2017-01-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1421420961 |
Download Natures in Translation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Understanding the dynamics of British colonialism and the enormous ecological transformations that took place through the mobilization and globalized management of natures. For many critics, Romanticism is synonymous with nature writing, for representations of the natural world appear during this period with a freshness, concreteness, depth, and intensity that have rarely been equaled. Why did nature matter so much to writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? And how did it play such an important role in their understanding of themselves and the world? In Natures in Translation, Alan Bewell argues that there is no Nature in the singular, only natures that have undergone transformation through time and across space. He examines how writers—as disparate as Erasmus and Charles Darwin, Joseph Banks, Gilbert White, William Bartram, William Wordsworth, John Clare, and Mary Shelley—understood a world in which natures were traveling and resettling the globe like never before. Bewell presents British natural history as a translational activity aimed at globalizing local natures by making them mobile, exchangeable, comparable, and representable. Bewell explores how colonial writers, in the period leading up to the formulation of evolutionary theory, responded to a world in which new natures were coming into being while others disappeared. For some of these writers, colonial natural history held the promise of ushering in a “cosmopolitan” nature in which every species, through trade and exchange, might become a true “citizen of the world.” Others struggled with the question of how to live after the natures they depended upon were gone. Ultimately, Natures in Translation demonstrates that—far from being separate from the dominant concerns of British imperial culture—nature was integrally bound up with the business of empire.
Author | : Emily Senior |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2018-04-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108416810 |
Download The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764-1834 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Significant study of colonial Caribbean literatures in the context of the high rates of disease and death in the region.
Author | : Tim Fulford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1998-08-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521591430 |
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The first sustained investigation of Romantic literature in relation to colonial politics.
Author | : Mark Harrison |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2013-05-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0745638015 |
Download Disease and the Modern World: 1500 to the Present Day Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
‘Mark Harrison's book illuminates the threats posed by infectious diseases since 1500. He places these diseases within an international perspective, and demonstrates the relationship between European expansion and changing epidemiological patterns. The book is a significant introduction to a fascinating subject.’ Gerald N. Grob, Rutgers State University In this lively and accessible book, Mark Harrison charts the history of disease from the birth of the modern world around 1500 through to the present day. He explores how the rise of modern nation-states was closely linked to the threat posed by disease, and particularly infectious, epidemic diseases. He examines the ways in which disease and its treatment and prevention, changed over the centuries, under the impact of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, and with the advent of scientific medicine. For the first time, the author integrates the history of disease in the West with a broader analysis of the rise of the modern world, as it was transformed by commerce, slavery, and colonial rule. Disease played a vital role in this process, easing European domination in some areas, limiting it in others. Harrison goes on to show how a new environment was produced in which poverty and education rather than geography became the main factors in the distribution of disease. Assuming no prior knowledge of the history of disease, Disease and the Modern World provides an invaluable introduction to one of the richest and most important areas of history. It will be essential reading for all undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in the history of disease and medicine, and for anyone interested in how disease has shaped, and has been shaped by, the modern world.
Author | : Deirdre Coleman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2005-01-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521632133 |
Download Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : Richard C. Sha |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0801890411 |
Download Perverse Romanticism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
At the nexus of Kantian aesthetics, literary analysis, and the history of medicine, Perverse Romanticism makes an important contribution to the study of sexuality in the long eighteenth century.
Author | : J. Douglas Kneale |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780773518049 |
Download Romantic Aversions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Romanticism is often regarded as a turning point in literary history, the time when writers such as Wordsworth and Coleridge renounced the common legacy of poets and sought to create a new literature. Yet despite their emphasis on originality, genius, and spontaneity, the first-generation Romantics manifest a highly intertextual style that, while repressing certain classical and neoclassical literary conventions, reveals a deep dependence on those same rhetorical practices. Repression results in the symptoms of originality but it inevitably leads to the return of tradition in a different form.
Author | : Timothy Fulford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2005-11-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521022064 |
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This volume examines Romantic literary discourse in relation to colonial politics and the peoples and places with which the British were increasingly coming into contact. It investigates topics from slavery to tropical disease, religion and commodity production, in a wide range of writers from Edmund Burke to Hannah More, William Blake to Phyllis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano to Mary Shelley, Thomas Clarkson to Lord Byron. Together, the essays constitute a broad assessment of Romanticism's engagement with India, Africa, the West Indies, South America and the Middle East.