famines, fevers and the literary cultures of South Asia
First Statement of Responsibility
Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[Basingstoke]
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2013
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
1. The Empire of Disasters --;2. Disaster Tourism : The Edens and Fanny Parks
3. Philip Meadows Taylor --;The Bureaucrat as Healer --;4. The Dead who did not Die : Rudyard Kipling and Cholera --;5. Gendering Disaster --;Flora Annie Steel.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire looks at the relationship between epidemics and famines in south Asia and Victorian literature and culture. It suggests that much of how we think today about disasters, state and society can be traced back to the 19th-century British imperial experience.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.