How early twentieth century fumigation technologies transformed maritime quarantine
practices and inspired utopian visions of disease-free global trade. In the late nineteenth …

The rat has been described as the shadow of the human: from ancient times through today, it
has followed man via routes of commerce and conquest to eventually inhabit nearly every …

This paper provides a broad overview of spatial, architectural, and sensory relationships
between rats and humans on British and American vessels from approximately the 1850s …

Colonial approaches to animal and zoonotic diseases are often scrutinized in terms of their
recognition or dismissal of indigenous knowledge. In this article I examine British colonial …

In The Eye of the Sandpiper, Brandon Keim pairs cutting-edge science with a deep love of
nature, conveying his insights in prose that is both accessible and beautiful. In an elegant …

It is almost impossible to find a plague-related news item today that is not accompanied by
an image of a rat. The best-known carriers of zoonotic diseases, rats are so closely identified …

This article coins the term 'vermin writing'to refer to the ways in which non-human animals
emerge as 'vermin'in human documents and leave their traces on them. It discusses …

Joseph Conrad, in his short story “Youth: A Narrative”(1898), gives a vivid description of rats
abandoning a ship. The ship in question is the Judea, which was commissioned to transport …

Abstract This chapter examines Alice Perrin's first short story collection East of Suez (1901)
and how the collection blends Colonial Gothic with “Animal Gothic.” The chapter focuses on …