Empire under the microscope : : parasitology and the British literary imagination, 1885-1935 / / Emilie Taylor-Pirie.
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 it...
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Taylor-Pirie, Emilie. Empire under the microscope : parasitology and the British literary imagination, 1885-1935 / Emilie Taylor-Pirie. 1st ed. 2022. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 1 online resource (303 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, 2634-6443 Description based upon print version of record. English FP7 Ideas: European Research Council 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. 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 English literature 19th century History and criticism. English literature 20th century History and criticism. Literature and medicine Great Britain History 19th century. Literature and medicine Great Britain History 20th century. Medical parasitology History 19th century. Medical parasitology History 20th century. 3-030-84716-0 |
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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. |
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