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Article: Romanticism and Colonial Disease.
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- September 22, 2001
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Alan Bewell, Romanticism and Colonial Disease.
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), pp. xv + 373. $45.00
Romanticism and Colonial Disease takes as its starting point a central but often overlooked feature of everyday life during the Romantic period: the scale of illness arising from colonial adventures. Large numbers of people were affected. Coleridge's brother Frank committed suicide during a delirium brought on by a fever which he caught on military service in Southern India. Another brother, John, died in the same country of tuberculosis. Coleridge himself may have contracted choIera in the early 1830s which many thought had come from Asia. ...