Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire
Famines, Fevers and the Literary Cultures of South Asia
(Sprache: Englisch)
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.
Leider schon ausverkauft
versandkostenfrei
Buch
80.24 €
40 DeutschlandCard Punkte
sammeln
- Lastschrift, Kreditkarte, Paypal, Rechnung
- Kostenlose Rücksendung
- Ratenzahlung möglich
Produktdetails
Produktinformationen zu „Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire “
Klappentext zu „Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire “
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire “
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
Autoren-Porträt von 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. Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: U. Mukherjee
- 2013, 1st ed., 221 Seiten, Maße: 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1349433578
- ISBN-13: 9781349433575
Sprache:
Englisch
Kommentar zu "Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire"
0 Gebrauchte Artikel zu „Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire“
| Zustand | Preis | Porto | Zahlung | Verkäufer | Rating |
|---|
Schreiben Sie einen Kommentar zu "Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire".
Kommentar verfassen