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1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 28
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 28.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the practice of paradise -- 1. Banishing panic: J.R. McCulloch, Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political economy -- 2. 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. 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism.
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Travelers' writings, English. |
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English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English prose literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Risk perception -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Risk perception. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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British -- Foreign countries -- History -- 19th century.
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British -- Foreign countries. |
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1837-1901.
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International relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1837-1901 |
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Travel writing -- History -- 19th century.
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Travel writing. |
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Travel in literature.
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Travel in literature. |
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Risk in literature.
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Risk in literature. |
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Autobiography.
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Autobiography. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1901 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Freedgood, Elaine. Victorian writing about risk. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521781086 (DLC) 99086371 (OCoLC)43287137 |
| ISBN |
0511010125 (electronic book) |
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9780511010125 (electronic book) |
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0511030703 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511030703 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511118635 (electronic book) |
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9780511118630 (electronic book) |
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9780521781084 (hardback) |
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0521781086 (hardback) |
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9780511484797 (electronic book) |
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9780511045950 (electronic book) |
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0511045956 (electronic book) |
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0511151160 |
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9780511151163 |
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1280154756 |
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9781280154751 |
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