The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764–1834: Slavery, Disease and Colonial Modernity
Author:   Emily Senior (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   119
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9781108416818


Pages:   300
Publication Date:   26 April 2018
Format:   Hardback
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The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764–1834: Slavery, Disease and Colonial Modernity


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Author:   Emily Senior (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   119
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.610kg
ISBN:  

9781108416818


ISBN 10:   1108416810
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   26 April 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Communicating disease: literature and medicine in the Atlantic World; Part I. Health, Geography and Aesthetics: 1. 'What new forms of death': the poetics of disease and cure; 2. The diagnostics of description: medical topography and the colonial picturesque; Part II. Colonial Bodies: 3. Skin, textuality and colonial feeling; 4. 'A Seasoned Creole' and 'a Citizen of the World': White West Indians and Atlantic medical knowledge; Part III. Revolution and Abolition: 5. The 'intimate union of medicine and magic': Obeah, revolution and colonial modernity; Afterword: colonial modernities and after abolition.

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Emily Senior is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has had articles published in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Studies and Atlantic Studies.

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