Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a dangerous world / Elaine Freedgood.
"In Victorian Writing about Risk, Elaine Freedgood explores the geography of risk produced by a wide spectrum of once-popular literature, including works on politic economy, sanitary reform, balloon flight, Alpine mountaineering and African exploration. The consolations offered by this geograph...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
28. |
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| Summary: | "In Victorian Writing about Risk, Elaine Freedgood explores the geography of risk produced by a wide spectrum of once-popular literature, including works on politic economy, sanitary reform, balloon flight, Alpine mountaineering and African exploration. The consolations offered by this geography of risk are precariously predicated on the stability of dominant Victorian definitions of people and places. Women, men, the laboring and middle classes, the English and the Irish, Africa and Africans: all have assigned identities that allow risk to be located and contained. When identities shift and boundaries fail, danger and safety begin to appear in all the wrong places. The texts that this study focuses on reveal the ways in which risk moralizes and naturalizes the economic and political institutions of industrial, imperial culture during a period of unprecedented expansion and change."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511010125 9780511010125 0511030703 9780511030703 0511118635 9780511118630 9780521781084 0521781086 9780511484797 0511484798 9780511045950 0511045956 0511151160 9780511151163 1280154756 9781280154751 9786610154753 6610154759 1107120241 9781107120242 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |