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03337aam a2200565 i 4500 001 D52CEAC2EAE411E387729F9EDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140603010131 008 130923s2013 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2013038119 020 $a 1137001127 (hardback) 020 $a 9781137001122 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)842208373 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d UKMGB $d BDX $d IUL $d COO $d YUS $d PUL $d NLE $d NLM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR468.D56 $b M85 2013 060 00 $a 2014 C-022 060 10 $a WZ 330 082 00 $a 820.9/3561 $2 23 084 $a LIT012000 $a LIT004120 $a LIT012000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Mukherjee, Upamanyu Pablo, $e author. 245 10 $a Natural disasters and Victorian empire : $b famines, fevers and the literary cultures of South Asia / $c Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee. 264 1 $a Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2013. 300 $a vii, 221 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-218) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "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 texts written 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a English literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Disasters in literature. 650 0 $a Epidemics in literature. 650 0 $a Imperialism $x History $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a South Asia $x In literature. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference. $2 bisacsh 650 12 $a Disasters $x history $z Great Britain. $2 [MeSH] 650 12 $a Disasters $x history $z India. $2 [MeSH] 650 12 $a Medicine in Literature $z Great Britain. $2 [MeSH] 650 12 $a Medicine in Literature $z India. $2 [MeSH] 650 22 $a Cultural Characteristics $z Great Britain. $2 [MeSH] 650 22 $a Cultural Characteristics $z India. $2 [MeSH] 650 22 $a History, 19th Century $z Great Britain. $2 [MeSH] 650 22 $a History, 19th Century $z India. $2 [MeSH] 650 22 $a Social Conditions $x history $z Great Britain. $2 [MeSH] 650 22 $a Social Conditions $x history $z India. $2 [MeSH] 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020013737.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826092515.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D52CEAC2EAE411E387729F9EDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search