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.
Format: Paperback / softbackCONTRIBUTORS: U. MukherjeeEAN: 9781349433575COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 454 gHEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: 2013-01-01CITY: GENRE: FICTION / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th CenturyWIDTH: 140 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Europe, Literature: history and criticism, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Fiction and Related items
'This book takes a little-visited perspective on the history of natural disasters, literature, and the context of the intellectual approaches to the subject.' - Natural Hazards Observer
Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee is a Reader at Warwick University, UK and is the author of Crime and Empire (2003), Postcolonial Environments (2010) and a wide range of other articles, reviews and edited books and journals. He was born in India and educated in Kolkata, Oxford and Cambridge. He has worked as a journalist and taught at Newcastle University, UK before his current appointment. He has been a regional judge for the Commonwealth Prize for Literature (Europe and Asia), and appeared on various arts and culture shows such as BBC's Late Review.
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.
Format: Paperback / softbackCONTRIBUTORS: U. MukherjeeEAN: 9781349433575COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 454 gHEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: 2013-01-01CITY: GENRE: FICTION / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th CenturyWIDTH: 140 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Europe, Literature: history and criticism, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Fiction and Related items
Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee is a Reader at Warwick University, UK and is the author of Crime and Empire (2003), Postcolonial Environments (2010) and a wide range of other articles, reviews and edited books and journals. He was born in India and educated in Kolkata, Oxford and Cambridge. He has worked as a journalist and taught at Newcastle University, UK before his current appointment. He has been a regional judge for the Commonwealth Prize for Literature (Europe and Asia), and appeared on various arts and culture shows such as BBC's Late Review.
