Books written by Rod Edmond

  • Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History

    ... it has been brought back to our very doors'.97 John Seeley's The Expansion of England had been published the previous year, and taking her cue from this work Lambert ranges across the world describing the prevalence of leprosy in ...

  • Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History

    The book also examines literary representations of leprosy in Romantic, Victorian and twentieth-century writing, and concludes with a discussion of traveller-writers such as R. L. Stevenson and Graham Greene who described and fictionalised ...

  • Migrations: Journeys in Time and Place

    Haddo House, 24 Hamilton, 142, 180, 210, 231; see also St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Hamilton Handbook ofthe New Zealand Presbyterian Church (Charles Murray), 94 Hardy, Thomas, 17, 64; see also 'Beeny Cliff'; 'Heredity' Hare, Julius, ...

  • Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin

    16 For accounts of Omai see Bernard Smith, European Vision and the South Pacific (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985), pp. 1 14-1 8; Rudigerjoppien, 'Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg's pantomime Omai: ...

  • Islands in History and Representation

    ... ('British Bliss is an Island Escape. No Suntan Lotion Required', Sydney Morning Herald, 3-4 August 2002: 20). In nineteenth-century colonial writing this desire often figured the island as the single gem or trinket of a collection.

  • Borderland

    ... She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea ' . Emin is Margate's most famous daughter . The title work of the exhibition is of a reclining female figure imagined , as Emin herself describes it , ' lying under a great weight , represented by the sea ...