Sam Goodman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3767676 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sam Goodman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sam |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodman |
| SIGNATURE | GOODMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bournemouth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7601-2564 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ailing Empires
This special issue explores the entanglements of medicine, science, and imperialism across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, foregrounding the paradox of ‘ailing empires’ in which health both sustained and destabilised colonial rule. Drawing on case studies spanning South Asia, the Middle East, East Asia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean, the contributions examine how medical knowledge circulated across imperial and transnational network…
Civil Service Rules
In the 1970s, the India Office Archive within the British Library began inviting the last generation of the Indian Civil Service and Indian Political Service to commit their experiences to written record. Running until the mid-1980s and eventually producing 135 manuscript memoirs, this archive offers a unique insight into the end of the British Empire, as seen a generation hence. This article argues that these memoirs, generated in a time of cris…
Salman Rushdie in Context
The Retrospective Raj
The Retrospective Raj: Medicine, Literature & History After Empire undertakes a detailed analysis of the use of medicine as a recurrent and defining trope of post-imperial fiction published between 1950 and 1990. The book argues that during this crucial period of recent history, when the influence and prestige of the British Empire was nearing its end, a range of contemporary novelists including J. G. Farrell, Paul Scott, John Masters, Ruth Prawe…
Retrospective Raj
Know Your Place
This chapter focuses on the importance of space, place and environment both within Anglo-Indian fiction and the medical history of colonial India. The chapter is divided into two main sections (exteriors and interiors), and considers a range of spaces in the course of its analysis. For example, as a means of examining the authority of the British presence in India, the chapter approaches the spatial emplacement of colonial and medical authority t…
Empires of the Senses
"Empires of the Senses: Bodily Encounters in Imperial India and the Philippines." History: Reviews of New Books, 49(5), pp. 122–123
Spaces of Intemperance & the British Raj 1860–1920
The history of the British Empire in India is one awash with alcohol. Drinking was a common practice throughout colonial society, acting as social necessity and source of a public anxiety. However, rather than only acknowledging what and why individuals in colonial India drank, it is of equal importance to consider where they did so. Despite its ubiquity, alcohol consumption in India was responsive to the dynamics of space and place, and both the…
Unpalatable Truths
This article considers the significance of eating and drinking within a series of diaries and journals produced in British colonial India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The discussion of food and drink in this context was not simply a means to add color or compelling detail to these accounts, but was instead a vital ingredient of the authors’ understanding of health and medical treatment. These texts suggest a broader colonial medical under…
Ain’t It a Ripping Night”
In the era of decolonisation that followed the Second World War, various authors sought to engage with India and the Empire's past anew throughout their novels, identifying medicine and illness as key parts of Imperial authority and colonial experience. Salman Rushdie's approach to the Raj in Midnight's Children (1981) focused on the broad sweep of colonial life, juxtaposing the political and the personal. This article argues that Rushdie explore…
Graham Greene
For Graham Greene politics were “in the air we breathe, like the presence or the absence of a God” (p. ix). Given the events of the past two years, Michael G. Brennan might be tempted to argue how
Mongrel nation
The novels of J.G. Farrell (1935–79), reveal a writer preoccupied with the cultural representation of Britain in an era of post-imperial decline. Farrell's ‘Empire trilogy’ illustrates a national consciousness examining its chequered past through focus on Ireland in Troubles (1970), the Indian Rebellion of 1857 in The Siege of Krishnapur (1973) and the fall of Singapore in The Singapore Grip (1978). In doing so, Farrell's novels feature a notable…
Seasons in the Sun
Journal Article Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974–1979, by Dominic Sandbrook Get access Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974–1979, by Dominic Sandbrook (London: Allen Lane, 2012; pp. 970. £30). Sam Goodman Sam Goodman University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 536, February 2014, Pages 257–259, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr…
A Great Beneficial Disease’
This article examines J. G. Farrell's depictions of colonial medicine as a means of analysing the historical reception of the further past and argues that the end-of-Empire context of the 1970s in which Farrell was writing informed his reappraisal of Imperial authority with particular regard to the limits of medical knowledge and treatment. The article illustrates how in The Siege of Krishnapur (1973), Farrell repeatedly sought to challenge the a…
State of Emergency
For those of us who were not around to experience the 1970s first-hand, it is perhaps easy to imagine them as a period of Bri-Nylon-clad stasis. In many popular representations of the 1970s, the decade is depicted as safe, stable and unexciting, overshadowed by the dynamism inherent in the gradually relaxing morals of the 1960s or the avaricious consumerism of the 1980s. Dominic Sandbrook’s State of Emergency, however, paints the 1970s in a varie…
Thrills, spills and pills
This paper examines the conjunction of pharmacological science and espionage fiction of the post-war era. This paper argues that, during the 1950s, the relatively new science of pharmacology propounded the possibility that illness and human deficiency could be treated in a way that better reflected the post-war zeitgeist. The use of pharmacological medicine, perceived as cleaner and quicker than more 'bodily' forms of treatment, represented progr…
Spaces of Intemperance & the British Raj 1860–1920
The history of the British Empire in India is one awash with alcohol. Drinking was a common practice throughout colonial society, acting as social necessity and source of a public anxiety. However, rather than only acknowledging what and why individuals in colonial India drank, it is of equal importance to consider where they did so. Despite its ubiquity, alcohol consumption in India was responsive to the dynamics of space and place, and both the…
Unpalatable Truths
This article considers the significance of eating and drinking within a series of diaries and journals produced in British colonial India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The discussion of food and drink in this context was not simply a means to add color or compelling detail to these accounts, but was instead a vital ingredient of the authors’ understanding of health and medical treatment. These texts suggest a broader colonial medical under…
A Great Beneficial Disease’
This article examines J. G. Farrell's depictions of colonial medicine as a means of analysing the historical reception of the further past and argues that the end-of-Empire context of the 1970s in which Farrell was writing informed his reappraisal of Imperial authority with particular regard to the limits of medical knowledge and treatment. The article illustrates how in The Siege of Krishnapur (1973), Farrell repeatedly sought to challenge the a…
Thrills, spills and pills
This paper examines the conjunction of pharmacological science and espionage fiction of the post-war era. This paper argues that, during the 1950s, the relatively new science of pharmacology propounded the possibility that illness and human deficiency could be treated in a way that better reflected the post-war zeitgeist. The use of pharmacological medicine, perceived as cleaner and quicker than more 'bodily' forms of treatment, represented progr…
State of Emergency
For those of us who were not around to experience the 1970s first-hand, it is perhaps easy to imagine them as a period of Bri-Nylon-clad stasis. In many popular representations of the 1970s, the decade is depicted as safe, stable and unexciting, overshadowed by the dynamism inherent in the gradually relaxing morals of the 1960s or the avaricious consumerism of the 1980s. Dominic Sandbrook’s State of Emergency, however, paints the 1970s in a varie…
Seasons in the Sun
Journal Article Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974–1979, by Dominic Sandbrook Get access Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974–1979, by Dominic Sandbrook (London: Allen Lane, 2012; pp. 970. £30). Sam Goodman Sam Goodman University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 536, February 2014, Pages 257–259, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr…
A Great Beneficial Disease’
This article examines J. G. Farrell's depictions of colonial medicine as a means of analysing the historical reception of the further past and argues that the end-of-Empire context of the 1970s in which Farrell was writing informed his reappraisal of Imperial authority with particular regard to the limits of medical knowledge and treatment. The article illustrates how in The Siege of Krishnapur (1973), Farrell repeatedly sought to challenge the a…
Mongrel nation
The novels of J.G. Farrell (1935–79), reveal a writer preoccupied with the cultural representation of Britain in an era of post-imperial decline. Farrell's ‘Empire trilogy’ illustrates a national consciousness examining its chequered past through focus on Ireland in Troubles (1970), the Indian Rebellion of 1857 in The Siege of Krishnapur (1973) and the fall of Singapore in The Singapore Grip (1978). In doing so, Farrell's novels feature a notable…
Unpalatable Truths
This article considers the significance of eating and drinking within a series of diaries and journals produced in British colonial India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The discussion of food and drink in this context was not simply a means to add color or compelling detail to these accounts, but was instead a vital ingredient of the authors’ understanding of health and medical treatment. These texts suggest a broader colonial medical under…
Ain’t It a Ripping Night”
In the era of decolonisation that followed the Second World War, various authors sought to engage with India and the Empire's past anew throughout their novels, identifying medicine and illness as key parts of Imperial authority and colonial experience. Salman Rushdie's approach to the Raj in Midnight's Children (1981) focused on the broad sweep of colonial life, juxtaposing the political and the personal. This article argues that Rushdie explore…
Graham Greene
For Graham Greene politics were “in the air we breathe, like the presence or the absence of a God” (p. ix). Given the events of the past two years, Michael G. Brennan might be tempted to argue how
Spaces of Intemperance & the British Raj 1860–1920
The history of the British Empire in India is one awash with alcohol. Drinking was a common practice throughout colonial society, acting as social necessity and source of a public anxiety. However, rather than only acknowledging what and why individuals in colonial India drank, it is of equal importance to consider where they did so. Despite its ubiquity, alcohol consumption in India was responsive to the dynamics of space and place, and both the…
Empires of the Senses
"Empires of the Senses: Bodily Encounters in Imperial India and the Philippines." History: Reviews of New Books, 49(5), pp. 122–123
The Retrospective Raj
The Retrospective Raj: Medicine, Literature & History After Empire undertakes a detailed analysis of the use of medicine as a recurrent and defining trope of post-imperial fiction published between 1950 and 1990. The book argues that during this crucial period of recent history, when the influence and prestige of the British Empire was nearing its end, a range of contemporary novelists including J. G. Farrell, Paul Scott, John Masters, Ruth Prawe…
Retrospective Raj
Know Your Place
This chapter focuses on the importance of space, place and environment both within Anglo-Indian fiction and the medical history of colonial India. The chapter is divided into two main sections (exteriors and interiors), and considers a range of spaces in the course of its analysis. For example, as a means of examining the authority of the British presence in India, the chapter approaches the spatial emplacement of colonial and medical authority t…
Salman Rushdie in Context
Civil Service Rules
In the 1970s, the India Office Archive within the British Library began inviting the last generation of the Indian Civil Service and Indian Political Service to commit their experiences to written record. Running until the mid-1980s and eventually producing 135 manuscript memoirs, this archive offers a unique insight into the end of the British Empire, as seen a generation hence. This article argues that these memoirs, generated in a time of cris…
Ailing Empires
This special issue explores the entanglements of medicine, science, and imperialism across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, foregrounding the paradox of ‘ailing empires’ in which health both sustained and destabilised colonial rule. Drawing on case studies spanning South Asia, the Middle East, East Asia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean, the contributions examine how medical knowledge circulated across imperial and transnational network…
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