04327nam 22008172 450 991045523640332120151005020620.01-107-12024-10-511-15116-00-511-31051-X0-511-04595-60-521-78108-61-280-15475-60-511-11863-50-511-48479-8(CKB)111056485618142(EBL)144673(OCoLC)475870785(SSID)ssj0000267347(PQKBManifestationID)11191621(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267347(PQKBWorkID)10333269(PQKB)10082152(UkCbUP)CR9780511484797(MiAaPQ)EBC144673(Au-PeEL)EBL144673(CaPaEBR)ebr10014884(CaONFJC)MIL15475(EXLCZ)9911105648561814220090226d2000|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierVictorian writing about risk imagining a safe England in a dangerous world /Elaine Freedgood[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2000.1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;28Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-02872-8 0-511-01012-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-211) and index.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.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.Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;28.Travelers' writings, EnglishHistory and criticismEnglish prose literature19th centuryHistory and criticismRisk perceptionGreat BritainHistory19th centuryBritishForeign countriesHistory19th centuryTravel writingHistory19th centuryTravel in literatureRisk in literatureAutobiographyGreat BritainForeign relations1837-1901Travelers' writings, EnglishHistory and criticism.English prose literatureHistory and criticism.Risk perceptionHistoryBritishHistoryTravel writingHistoryTravel in literature.Risk in literature.Autobiography.820.9/355Freedgood Elaine901396UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910455236403321Victorian writing about risk2475132UNINA