The retrospective Raj : medicine, literature and history after empire /
Goodman, Sam, 1980-
The retrospective Raj : medicine, literature and history after empire / Sam Goodman. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022. - 1 online resource (viii, 238 pages).
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.
9781399513470 No price
Medicine in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Postcolonialism in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
823.914093561
The retrospective Raj : medicine, literature and history after empire / Sam Goodman. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022. - 1 online resource (viii, 238 pages).
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.
9781399513470 No price
Medicine in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Postcolonialism in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
823.914093561