Mukherjee, Upamanyu Pablo

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Natural disasters and Victorian empire famines, fevers and the literary cultures of South Asia / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee.

vii, 221 p. 23 cm

Machine generated contents note: -- 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.

9781137001122 (hbk.) :

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Disasters in literature.
Epidemics in literature.
Imperialism--Social aspects--History--Great Britain--19th century.