The Retrospective Raj : Medicine, Literature and History after Empire.

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

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Kaituhi matua: Goodman, Sam
Hōputu: Licensed eBooks
Reo:Ingarihi
I whakaputaina: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
Rangatū:Edinburgh scholarship online.
Urunga tuihono:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv2b8rwn8
Rārangi ihirangi:
  • 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