The Retrospective Raj - Medicine, Literature and History After Empire (Hardcover)

The Retrospective Raj: Medicine, Literature & History After Empire undertakes a detailed analysis of the use of medicine as a recurrent and defining trope of post-imperial fiction published between 1950 and 1990. The book argues that during this crucial period of recent history, when the influence and prestige of the British Empire was nearing its end, a range of contemporary novelists including J. G. Farrell, Paul Scott, John Masters, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and Salman Rushdie identified and used medicine as a discursive paradigm through which to engage critically with the history, authority and legacy of the British Empire within their writing. Drawing on a range of literary and archival sources, this work explores the complex relationship between Britain, India and Empire through a medical lens, bringing together the concerns of literary study and medical history under an interdisciplinary and original methodological framework.

General

Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2022
Authors:	Sam Goodman
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Unsewn / adhesive bound
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-1-4744-4874-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	1-4744-4874-7
Barcode:	9781474448741

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