Study of malaria in literature and culture illuminates the legacies of nineteenth-century colonial medicine within narratives of illness.

This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his c

Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.

What is style, and why does it matter? This book answers these questions by recovering the concept of 'stylistic virtue,' once foundational to rhetoric and aest

This book examines how and why British imperial rule shaped scientific knowledge about malaria and its cures in nineteenth-century India. This title is also ava