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Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire looks at the relationship between epidemics and famines in south Asia and Victorian literature and culture. It suggests that much of how we think today about disasters, state and society can be traced back to the 19th-century British imperial experience.
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'This book takes a little-visited perspective on the history of natural disasters, literature, and the context of the intellectual approaches to the subject.' - Natural Hazards Observer
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Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee is a Reader at Warwick University, UK and is the author of Crime and Empire (2003), Postcolonial Environments (2010) and a wide range of other articles, reviews and edited books and journals. He was born in India and educated in Kolkata, Oxford and Cambridge. He has worked as a journalist and taught at Newcastle University, UK before his current appointment. He has been a regional judge for the Commonwealth Prize for Literature (Europe and Asia), and appeared on various arts and culture shows such as BBC's Late Review.
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Book Title: Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire
Book Subtitle: Famines, Fevers and the Literary Cultures of South Asia
Authors: Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137001139
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-00112-2Published: 27 September 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43357-5Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-00113-9Published: 24 September 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 221
Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction, Literary Theory, Nineteenth-Century Literature