Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: colonialism and disease
  • Romantic medical geography: empire, disease, and the construction of pathogenic environments
  • "Voices of dead complaint": colonial military disease narratives
  • Colonial dietary anxieties
  • Keats and the geography of consumption
  • Joseph Ritchie and "the diseased heart of Africa"
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley and revolutionary climatology
  • Cholera, sanitation, and the colonial representation of India
  • Tropical invalids
  • "All the world has the plague": Mary Shelley's The last man.