The literary life of colonial parasites: Emilie Taylor-Pirie: Empire under the microscope: parasitology and the British literary imagination, 1885–1935. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 303 pp, Open Access.

Indeed, here, a more international perspective would have helped Taylor-Pirie to elucidate how the knight-parasitologists differed from the heroes of other empires, such as those analyzed by Ed Berenson in his ground-breaking work (Berenson [2]). Taylor-Pirie notes how this sort of self-fashioning coalesced with a broader appetite for stories of imperial adventures, as encouraged by writers like Rudyard Kipling, who, we learn, was a friend of Ross. The final chapter justifies Taylor-Pirie's focus on parasitology, and in particular the works of Patrick Manson and Ronald Ross as the focus of her study. [Extracted from the article]