Victorian Writing About Risk - Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World

Zusammenfassung In Victorian Writing about Risk! first published in 2000! Elaine Freedgood explores the geography of risk produced by a wide spectrum of once-popular literature. The consolations this geography of risk offers are precariously predicated on dominant Victorian definitions of people and places which have assigned identities which allow risk to be located and contained. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: the practice of paradise; 1. Banishing panic: J. R. McCulloch, Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political economy; 2. The rhetoric of visible hands: Edwin Chadwick, Florence Nightingale and the popularization of sanitary reform; 3. Groundless optimism: regression in the service of the ego, England and empire in Victorian ballooning memoirs; 4. The uses of pain: cultural masochism and the colonization of the future in Victorian mountaineering memoirs; 5. A field for enterprise: the memoirs of David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Freedgood Elaine, Elaine Freedgood, Elaine (University of Pennsylvania) Freedgood
• Assisted by: Gillian Beer (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521028721
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02872-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies