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

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781107120242
ISBN: 1107120241
ISBN: 6610154759
ISBN: 9786610154753
ISBN: 9781280154751
ISBN: 1280154756
ISBN: 9780511151163
ISBN: 0511151160
ISBN: 0511045956
ISBN: 9780511045950
ISBN: 0511484798
ISBN: 9780511484797
ISBN: 0521781086
ISBN: 9780521781084
ISBN: 9780511118630
ISBN: 0511118635
ISBN: 9780511030703
ISBN: 0511030703
ISBN: 9780511010125
ISBN: 0511010125
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.