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Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire U. Mukherjee

Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire By U. Mukherjee

Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire by U. Mukherjee

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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.

Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire Summary

Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire: Famines, Fevers and the Literary Cultures of South Asia by U. Mukherjee

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.

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'This book takes a little-visited perspective on the history of natural disasters, literature, and the context of the intellectual approaches to the subject.' - Natural Hazards Observer

About U. Mukherjee

Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee is a Reader at Warwick University, UK and is the author of Crime and Empire (2003), Postcolonial Environments (2010) and a wide range of other articles, reviews and edited books and journals. He was born in India and educated in Kolkata, Oxford and Cambridge. He has worked as a journalist and taught at Newcastle University, UK before his current appointment. He has been a regional judge for the Commonwealth Prize for Literature (Europe and Asia), and appeared on various arts and culture shows such as BBC's Late Review.

Table of Contents

Introduction 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 Coda Bibliography

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NPB9781137001122
9781137001122
1137001127
Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire: Famines, Fevers and the Literary Cultures of South Asia by U. Mukherjee
U. Mukherjee
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2013-09-27
221
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