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Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire

Famines, Fevers and the Literary Cultures of South Asia

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  1. Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee

    1. University of Warwick, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-28

  3. The Empire of Disasters

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    Pages 29-60

  4. Disaster Tourism: The Edens and Fanny Parks

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    Pages 61-87

  5. Philip Meadows Taylor: The Bureaucrat as Healer

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    Pages 88-130

  6. ‘The Dead Who Did Not Die’: Rudyard Kipling and Cholera

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    Pages 131-166

  7. Gendering Disaster: Flora Annie Steel

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    Pages 167-198

  8. Coda

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    Pages 199-204

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 205-221
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About this book

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

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Warwick, UK

    Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee

About the author

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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