Empire under the Microscope : : Parasitology and the British Literary Imagination, 1885-1935.

• Superior document: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Series
• Author: Taylor-Pirie, Emilie.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (303 pages)

Table of Contents

Empire Under the Microscope -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Empire Under the Microscope -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Stories of Science and Empire -- ScienceHumanities -- Medicine, Gender, and Nation -- Mapping Empire -- The Knights of Science: Medicine and Mythology -- Arthur and Empire -- Alexander, Shakespeare, and Apollo: Literary Metaphor and Scientific Idealism -- Descent into the East: Tropical Mythologies -- Fairy Tales and Afterlives -- Expeditions into 'Central Man': Imperial Romance, Tropical Medicine, and Heroic Masculinity -- Pioneers, Poets, and Prophets -- 'It's a Heroic Thing to Do': Exploring the Microscopic Frontier -- Fantasy Worlds and Fantasy Medicine -- 'Puny Carpet Knights' and Muscular Christianity -- Medicine as New Romance -- Detecting the Diagnosis: Parasitology, Crime Fiction, and the British Medical Gaze -- Heroes of Real Life: Medicine and Empire -- Medical Detectives and 20-20 Vision -- (Re)diagnosing the Colonial Encounter -- Criminal Natures -- Imperial Aetiologies: Violence, Sleeping Sickness, and the Colonial Encounter -- Stranger than Fiction -- Race and Illness -- Emotional Epidemiology -- Tropical Neurasthenia and 'White-Man Lethargy' -- Microbial Empires: Active Transmission Strategies and Postcolonial Critique -- The Violence of Medicine and the Fever of War -- Insect Wars and Microbial Thugs -- Vampires and Vectors -- Biting with Intent: Agency and Revenge -- Epilogue: Pan Narrans -- Bibliography -- Index.