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Empire Under the Microscope = Parasitology and the British Literary Imagination, 1885–1935 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Empire Under the Microscope/ by Emilie Taylor-Pirie.
Reminder of title:	Parasitology and the British Literary Imagination, 1885–1935 /
Author:	Taylor-Pirie, Emilie.
Description:	XIII, 294 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Literature, Modern—19th century. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84717-3
ISBN:	9783030847173

Empire Under the Microscope = Parasitology and the British Literary Imagination, 1885–1935 /
Taylor-Pirie, Emilie.

Empire Under the MicroscopeParasitology and the British Literary Imagination, 1885–1935 /[electronic resource] :by Emilie Taylor-Pirie. - 1st ed. 2022. - XIII, 294 p.online resource. - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,2634-6443. - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,.

1. Introduction: Stories of Science and Empire -- 2. The Knights of Science: Medicine and Mythology -- 3. Expeditions into ‘Central Man’: Imperial Romance, Tropical Medicine, and Heroic Masculinity -- 4. Detecting the Diagnosis: Parasitology, Crime Fiction, and the British Medical Gaze -- 5. Imperial Aetiologies: Violence, Sleeping Sickness, and the Colonial Encounter -- 6. Microbial Empires: Active Transmission Strategies and Postcolonial Critique -- 7. Epilogue: Pan Narrans.

Open Access

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. 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.

ISBN: 9783030847173

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-84717-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1253622
Literature, Modern—19th century.

LC Class. No.: PN760.5-769

Dewey Class. No.: 809.034

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