Jessica Howell (Texas A & M University)

Gebundenes Buch

Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire

Beschreibung

This study focuses on the depictions of malaria in nineteenth-century and postcolonial fiction of writers such as Charles Dickens, Henry James, H. Rider Haggard, and Rudyard Kipling amongst others. It also examines the multivalent and subversive potential of the disease in postcolonial literature of writers such as Amitav Ghosh and Derek Walcott.

Autor

Jessica Howell is Associate Professor of English at Texas A & M University. Her previous publications include Exploring Victorian Travel Literature: Disease, Race and Climate (2014) as well as numerous articles that have appeared in Literature and Medicine, Victorian Literature and Culture, Studies in Travel Writing, and the Journal of Commonwealth Literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 159mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9781108484688
• ISBN-10: 1108484689
• Artikelnr.: 52524641