The Caribbean and the medical imagination, 1764-1834 : slavery, disease and colonial modernity /
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| Author / Creator: | Senior, Emily, 1978- author. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018. ©2018 |
| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in romanticism ; 119 Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 119. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12309636 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of contents; List of llustrations; Acknowledgements; Communicating Disease; Part I Health, Geography and Aesthetics; Chapter 1 'What New Forms of Death'; 'West-India Georgic'; Georgic Organicism; Empire of Experiment; Imitation and Innovation; Chapter 2 The Diagnostics of Description; The Diagnostics of Description; Colonial Picturesque; Medical Topographical Aesthetics; 'A Change of Air and Place'; Colonial Gothic; Medical Vision; Part II Colonial Bodies.
- Chapter 3 Skin, Textuality and Colonial FeelingClimate and Complexion: The Porosity of Skin; Inside/Out: The Body without Skin; Narratives of Body and Text; Sentimental Textuality; Chapter 4 'A Seasoned Creole' and 'a Citizen of the World'; Creole Pathologies; 'Not One of the World's Family'; Creole Modernities; Creoles and Atlantic Medical and Natural Knowledge; Part III Revolution and Abolition; Chapter 5 The 'Intimate Union of Medicine and Magic'; Obeah in the Archive; Obeah and Medicine in the British Caribbean; The Contagious Imagination.
- Three-Fingered Jack and the Performance of ProphecyColonial Gothic and Hamel, the Obeah Man (1827); Mimesis and Modernity; Afterword: Colonial Modernities and after Abolition; Notes; Communicating Disease; 1 'What New Forms of Death'; 2 The Diagnostics of Description; 3 Skin, Textuality and Colonial Feeling; 4 'A Seasoned Creole' and 'a Citizen of the World'; 5 The 'Intimate Union of Medicine and Magic'; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.
