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Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a dangerous world /

"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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Основен автор: Freedgood, Elaine.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Серия: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 28.
Предмети:
1800-1901
Travelers' writings, English > History and criticism.
English prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Risk perception > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
British > Foreign countries > History > 19th century.
Travel writing > History > 19th century.
Travel in literature.
Risk in literature.
Autobiography.
Travelers'' writings, English.
Travelers' writings, English > History and critici.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
British > Foreign countries. > Foreign countries.
Diplomatic relations.
ENGLISH PROSE LITERATURE.
Risk perception.
Travel writing.
Travelers' writings, English.
Risico nemen.
Victoriaanse tijd.
Veiligheid.
Reisverhalen.
Reiseliteratur.
Abenteuerliteratur.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > 1837-1901.
Great Britain.
Englisch.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Victorian writing about risk.
Съдържание:
  • 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.

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