Background
Rod Edmond was born in 1946, in Hamilton, New Zealand.
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Rod attended Victoria University of Wellington.
Merton St, Oxford OX1 4JD, United Kingdom
Rod attended Merton College, Oxford.
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Rod attended Victoria University of Wellington.
Merton St, Oxford OX1 4JD, United Kingdom
Rod attended Merton College, Oxford.
https://www.amazon.com/Affairs-Hearth-Victorian-Domestic-Narrative/dp/0415006562
1988
(This book examines how the South Pacific was represented ...)
This book examines how the South Pacific was represented by explorers, missionaries, travelers, writers and artists between 1767 and 1914. It draws on history, literature, art history and anthropology in its study of different, often conflicting colonial discourses of the Pacific.
https://www.amazon.com/Representing-South-Pacific-Colonial-Discourse/dp/0521550548
1997
(This work represents an innovative, interdisciplinary stu...)
This work represents an innovative, interdisciplinary study of why leprosy, a disease with a very low level of infection, has repeatedly provoked revulsion and fear. Rod Edmond explores, in particular, how these reactions were refashioned in the modern colonial period.
https://www.amazon.com/Leprosy-Empire-Cultural-Cambridge-Histories-ebook-dp-B000SHYW9A/dp/B000SHYW9A/?tag=2022091-20
2006
https://www.amazon.com/Migrations-Journeys-place-Rod-Edmond-ebook/dp/B00E55D526
2013
Rod Edmond was born in 1946, in Hamilton, New Zealand.
Rod attended Victoria University of Wellington and Merton College, Oxford.
From 1974 until his retirement in 2009, Rod held a post of a Professor of Modern Literature and Cultural History at the School of English at the University of Kent. During his tenure at the university, Rod also served as head of the department.
During his career, Edmond also held a post of director of the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Research at Rutherford College in Kent.
Moreover, Edmond has authored several books, including "Affairs of the Hearth: Victorian Poetry and Domestic Narrative" (1988), "Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin" (1997), "Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History" (2006) and "Migrations: Journeys in Time and Place" (2013).
Rod has also contributed essays to a number of edited books, including "Modernism and Empire" (2000), "Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing" (2002), "The Global Eighteenth Century" (2003), "Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire" (2005) and "Writing, Travel and Empire" (2006).
For a number of years, Rod was a co-general editor of the Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures series. In addition, he has published articles in learned journals, such as Victorian Poetry, Victorian Literature and Culture, Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Rod also edited two recent issues of the Journal of New Zealand Literature and published several essays on cricket.
Currently, Rod lives in Deal, England.
Rod Edmond is a well-known academic and writer, whose work has been focused on Victorian and Postcolonial writing and the history and literature of Empire. His books include "Affairs of the Hearth: Victorian Poetry and Domestic Narrative" (1988), "Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin" (1997), "Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History" (2006) and "Migrations: Journeys in Time and Place" (2013).
Rod is a recipient of several awards, including the Leverhulme Research Fellowship, Trevor Reese Memorial Prize for Imperial History and Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine Research Fellowship.
(This work represents an innovative, interdisciplinary stu...)
2006(This book examines how the South Pacific was represented ...)
1997Scarlett Thomas, an author and creative writing teacher, is Rod's life partner.
