Victorian Writing about Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series)
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In Victorian Writing about Risk, Elaine Freedgood explores a wide spectrum of once-popular literature, including works on political economy, sanitary reform, balloon flight, 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, Africa and Africans: all have assigned identities that...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521028728
ISBN13:9780521028721
Release Date:November 2006
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:232 Pages
Weight:0.76 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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