書(shū)目名稱 | Empire Under the Microscope | 副標(biāo)題 | Parasitology and the | 編輯 | Emilie Taylor-Pirie | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/309/308824/308824.mp4 | 概述 | ?Winner of the 2022 British Society for Literature and Science Book Prize.Pays particular attention to the social, linguistic, and material networks between literature and science.Establishes how scie | 叢書(shū)名稱 | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine | 圖書(shū)封面 |  | 描述 | 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 mode | 出版日期 | Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2022 | 關(guān)鍵詞 | Medicine; Science; Illness; Disease; Fin-de-siècle; Epidemiology; Haemotology; Bram Stoker; Sheridan Le Fanu | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84717-3 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-84717-3Series ISSN 2634-6435 Series E-ISSN 2634-6443 | issn_series | 2634-6435 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022 |
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