TY  - GEN
AU  - Taylor-Pirie,Emilie
TI  - Empire Under the Microscope : Parasitology and the British Literary Imagination, 1885–1935
SN  - 978-3-030-84717-3
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Bern
PB  - Springer Nature
KW  - Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Literary studies: from c 1900 -
KW  - Fiction & related items
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Science
KW  - Illness
KW  - Disease
KW  - Fin-de-siècle
KW  - Epidemiology
KW  - Haemotology
KW  - Bram Stoker
KW  - Sheridan Le Fanu
KW  - Arthur Conan Doyle
KW  - Open Access
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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 modern mythology that has a visible legacy in relationships between science and society today
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51951/1/978-3-030-84717-3.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/74863
ER  -