The Caribbean and the medical imagination, 1764-1834 : slavery, disease and colonial modernity /

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Author / Creator:Senior, Emily, 1978- author.
Imprint:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
©2018
Description:1 online resource (xii, 284 pages) : illustrations
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/14139091
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ISBN:9781108271554
1108271553
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1108416810
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the 'grave of Europeans'. At the apex of British colonialism in the region between 1764 and 1834, the rapid spread of disease amongst colonist, enslaved and indigenous populations made the Caribbean notorious as one of the deadliest places on earth. Drawing on historical accounts from physicians, surgeons and travellers alongside literary works, Emily Senior traces the cultural impact of such widespread disease and death during the Romantic age of exploration and medical and scientific discovery. Focusing on new fields of knowledge such as dermatology, medical geography and anatomy, Senior shows how literature was crucial to the development and circulation of new medical ideas, and that the Caribbean as the hub of empire played a significant role in the changing disciplines and literary forms associated with the transition to modernity.
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505 8 |a 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. 
505 8 |a 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. 
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