The Retrospective Raj: Medicine, Literature and History After Empire

by Sam Goodman

The Retrospective Raj: Medicine, Literature & History After Empire undertakes a detailed analysis of the use of medicine as a recurrent and defining trope of post-imperial fiction published between 1950 and 1990. The book argues that during this crucial period of recent history, when the influence and prestige of the British Empire was nearing its end, a range of contemporary novelists including J. G. Farrell, Paul Scott, John Masters, Ruth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474448755
• ISBN13: 9781474448758
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"