Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire [electronic resource] : Famines, Fevers and the Literary Cultures of South Asia /
Mukherjee, U.author.
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.
"Arts & Humanities Research Council"--Title page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Literature   .
British literature.
Fiction.
Literature—Philosophy.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.