Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire - Famines, Fevers and the Literary Cultures of South Asia

"How did the Victorians think about disasters such as famines and epidemic diseases? What was the relationship between such cataclysmic events and literary forms, styles and genres? In what way was thinking about disasters also crucial to practices of governance? Does the legacy of such Victorian thinking still shape our contemporary responses to 'natural' disasters? This book seeks to answer such questions by looking at a wide range of administrative, medical, historical, journalistic and literary textswritten about Britain's key imperial possession in the 19th-century - south Asia. In doing so, it expands our ideas about Victorian literature, just as it reshapes our definitions of 'natural' disasters themselves"--

List 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

Report

'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

Product details

• Authors: U Mukherjee, U. Mukherjee, Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.09.2013
• EAN: 9781137001122
• ISBN: 978-1-137-00112-2
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Fiction & related items, Fiction, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, World Literature, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Postcolonial/World Literature, English literature;Rudyard Kipling;Victorian era