Emily Senior

The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764-1834

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the 'grave of Europeans'. Drawing on a wide range of fictional and non-fictional accounts this book explores the cultural impact of such widespread disease, revealing how literature was crucial to the development and circulation of new medical ideas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9781108404198
• ISBN-10: 1108404197
• Artikelnr.: 60002702

Autorenporträt

Emily Senior is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has had articles published in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Studies and Atlantic Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Communicating disease: literature and medicine in the Atlantic World; Part
I. Health, Geography and Aesthetics: 1. 'What new forms of death': the
poetics of disease and cure; 2. The diagnostics of description: medical
topography and the colonial picturesque; Part II. Colonial Bodies: 3. Skin,
textuality and colonial feeling; 4. 'A Seasoned Creole' and 'a Citizen of
the World': White West Indians and Atlantic medical knowledge; Part III.
Revolution and Abolition: 5. The 'intimate union of medicine and magic':
Obeah, revolution and colonial modernity; Afterword: colonial modernities
and after abolition.