Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire

Cover
Half Title
Series page
Title page
Imprints page
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Malaria: A Disease of Place and Displacement
	Malaria Narratives
	Malaria in Literature and Medicine Studies
	Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire
	Notes
1 Nationalism and Acute Malaria in Transatlantic Fiction
	Transatlantic Malaria Networks
	Escaping the Swamp: Dickens in America
	The “Pestiferous Picturesque”: Henry James’s Malarial Aesthetics
	Fiction and the Politics of Malignant Malaria
	Notes
2 Malaria and the Imperial Romance
	Colonialism and South African Malaria
	Visions of Malaria in King Solomon’s Mines
	Parchment, Linen, and Malarial Cachexia
	Later Ambivalences
	Notes
3 Malarial Feminisms
	Self-Diagnosis and the Female Settler’s Body
	Reading Malaria Allegory
	Feverish Dreams in Olive Schreiner’s Fiction
	Malarial Feminisms
	Notes
4 The Boy Doctor of Empire
	The Myth of Mastering Malaria
	Kipling’s Narrative Patterns of Malaria: Introspection and Remission
	Remission Narratives in Kim
	Colonial History and Contemporary Illness Narrative
	Notes
5 Rewriting the Bite
	The Gothic Puncture Scene
	Colonial Blood Politics
	Rewriting the Bite: The Calcutta Chromosome
	Notes
Coda: Toward a Postcolonial Health Humanities
	Notes
Bibliography
Index