Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire: Famines, Fevers and the Literary Cultures of South Asia

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.

Author: U. Mukherjee
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/27/2013
Pages: 221
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781137001122

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.