This is a richly contextualized study of a subject at the nexus of several current, scholarly concerns: colonialism, medical theory, sentimentalism, identity discourse, and fiction. Applying a variety of sources - medical, judicial, theoretical, and historical - to literary works, the book argues that the literary representations about fever formed an essential way to construct identity, and that this identity carried political and ideological implications.
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This is a richly contextualized study of a subject at the nexus of several current, scholarly concerns: colonialism, medical theory, sentimentalism, identity discourse, and fiction. Applying a variety of sources - medical, judicial, theoretical, and historical - to literary works, the book argues that the literary representations about fever formed an essential way to construct identity, and that this identity carried political and ideological implications.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Hardcover with textured black paper over boards with gilt titles to spine, in red, black and white jacket with period artwork ("Ague & Fever") to front, 8vo. Index, bibliography, endnotes. Book and jacket are as new: bright, tight, sharp and unmarked. Jacket in Brodart. Neither ex-lib nor remainder.
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