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

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"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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Freedgood, Elaine
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Collection:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 28.
Sujets:
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.
Autobiographies as Topic
Écrits de voyageurs anglais > Histoire et critique.
Prose anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Perception du risque > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Britanniques > Pays étrangers > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Voyage > Art d'écrire > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Voyage dans la littérature.
Risque dans la littérature.
Autobiographie.
autobiography (genre)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
British > Foreign countries.
Diplomatic relations.
English prose literature.
Risk perception.
Travel writing.
Travelers' writings, English.
Reiseliteratur
Abenteuerliteratur
Risico nemen.
Victoriaanse tijd.
Veiligheid.
Reisverhalen.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > 1837-1901.
Grande-Bretagne > Relations extérieures > 1837-1901.
Great Britain.
Englisch.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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