Empire Under the Microscope : Parasitology and the British Literary Imagination, 1885-1935

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Tác giả: Emilie Taylor-Pirie

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-13: 978-3030847173

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Thông tin xuất bản: Bern : Springer Nature, 2022

Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (294 p.)

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 219537

 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.
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