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The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764–1834
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Emily Senior
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-26 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the 'grave of Europeans'. At the apex of British colonialism in the region between 17
The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764-1834
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Emily Senior
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-26 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Significant study of colonial Caribbean literatures in the context of the high rates of disease and death in the region.
Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 283
Authors: Laura R. Kremmel
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-04-15 - Publisher: University of Wales Press

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This book debates a crossover between the Gothic and the medical imagination in the Romantic period. It explores the gore and uncertainty typical of medical exp
The Smell of Slavery
Language: en
Pages: 259
Authors: Andrew Kettler
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Slavery, capitalism, and colonialism were understood as racially justified through false olfactory perceptions of African bodies throughout the Atlantic World.
A Caribbean Enlightenment
Language: en
Pages: 405
Authors: April G. Shelford
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-09-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Explores the intersection of Enlightenment ideas and colonial realities amongst White, male colonists in the eighteenth-century French and British Caribbean. Fo