An innovative, interdisciplinary study of why leprosy, a disease
with a very low level of infection, has repeatedly provoked
revulsion and fear. Rod Edmond explores, in particular, how these
reactions were refashioned in the modern colonial period. Beginning
as a medical history, the book broadens into an examination of how
Britain and its colonies responded to the believed spread of
leprosy. Across the empire this involved isolating victims of the
disease in 'colonies', often on offshore islands. Discussion of the
segregation of lepers is then extended to analogous examples of
this practice, which, it is argued, has been an essential part of
the repertoire of colonialism in the modern period. The book also
examines literary representations of leprosy in Romantic, Victorian
and twentieth-century writing, and concludes with a discussion of
traveller-writers such as R. L. Stevenson and Graham Greene who
described and fictionalised their experience of staying in a leper
colony.
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