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020			_a9781399513470 _qebook _cNo price
082			_a823.914093561
100			_aGoodman, Sam, _d1980- _eauthor. _923120
245	1	4	_aThe retrospective Raj : _bmedicine, literature and history after empire / _cSam Goodman.
260			_aEdinburgh : _bEdinburgh University Press, _c2022.
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 238 pages).
520			_aThe 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.
650			_aMedicine in literature. _923121
650			_aEnglish fiction _y20th century _xHistory and criticism. _923122
650			_aPostcolonialism in literature. _923123
650			_aImperialism in literature. _923124
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474448741.001.0001
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