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

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Victorian writing about risk :/ Elaine Freedgood.
其他題名:	imagining a safe England in a dangerous world /
作者:	Freedgood, Elaine,
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
附註:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
標題:	Autobiography. -
標題:	Great Britain - Politics and government - 1997- -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484797
ISBN:	9780511484797 (ebook)

Victorian writing about risk : = imagining a safe England in a dangerous world /
Freedgood, Elaine,

Victorian writing about risk :imagining a safe England in a dangerous world /Elaine Freedgood. - 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;28. - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;80..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction: the practice of paradise --1.

In Victorian Writing about Risk, first published in 2000, Elaine Freedgood explores the geography of risk produced by a wide spectrum of once-popular literature, including works on political 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 labouring and middle classes, the English and the Irish, Africa and Africans: all have assigned identities which 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.

ISBN: 9780511484797 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

558977
Autobiography.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

556459
Great Britain
--Politics and government--1997-

LC Class. No.: PR756.T72 / F74 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/355

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