Emily Senior

Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764-1834 (eBook, ePUB)

Slavery, Disease and Colonial Modernity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the 'grave of Europeans'. At the apex of British colonialism in the region between 1764 and 1834, the rapid spread of disease amongst colonist, enslaved and indigenous populations made the Caribbean notorious as one of the deadliest places on earth. Drawing on historical accounts from physicians, surgeons and travellers alongside literary works, Emily Senior traces the cultural impact of such widespread disease and death during the Romantic age of exploration and medical and scientific discovery. Focusing on new fields of knowledge such as dermatology, medical geography and anatomy, Senior shows how literature was crucial to the development and circulation of new medical ideas, and that the Caribbean as the hub of empire played a significant role in the changing disciplines and literary forms associated with the transition to modernity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108266093
• Artikelnr.: 53398353

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.