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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b11927365.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Foreign relations 1837-1901.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-211) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xii, 216 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521781086 (hardback)".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 28".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Foreign countries".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Foreign relations 1837-1901.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "820.9/355 21".
- catalog subject "Autobiography.".
- catalog subject "British Foreign countries History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "British Travel Foreign countries History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "English prose literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PR756.T72 F74 2000".
- catalog subject "Risk in literature.".
- catalog subject "Risk perception Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Travel in literature.".
- catalog subject "Travel writing History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Travelers' writings, English History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a dangerous world / Elaine Freedgood.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".