LEADER 04328nam 22008172 450 001 9910819694703321 005 20151005020620.0 010 $a1-107-12024-1 010 $a0-511-15116-0 010 $a0-511-31051-X 010 $a0-511-04595-6 010 $a0-521-78108-6 010 $a1-280-15475-6 010 $a0-511-11863-5 010 $a0-511-48479-8 035 $a(CKB)111056485618142 035 $a(EBL)144673 035 $a(OCoLC)475870785 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000267347 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11191621 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267347 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10333269 035 $a(PQKB)10082152 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511484797 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC144673 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL144673 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10014884 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL15475 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485618142 100 $a20090226d2000|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aVictorian writing about risk $eimagining a safe England in a dangerous world /$fElaine Freedgood$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;$v28 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-02872-8 311 $a0-511-01012-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-211) and index. 327 $tIntroduction: the practice of paradise --$g1.$tBanishing panic: J.R. McCulloch, Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political economy --$g2.$tThe rhetoric of visible hands: Edwin Chadwick, Florence Nightingale and the popularization of sanitary reform --$g3.$tGroundless optimism: regression in the service of the ego, England and empire in Victorian ballooning memoirs --$g4.$tThe uses of pain: cultural masochism and the colonization of the future in Victorian mountaineering memoirs --$g5.$tA field for enterprise: the memoirs of David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley. 330 $aIn Victorian Writing about Risk, first published in 2000, Elaine Freedgood explores the geography of risk produced by a wide spectrum of once-popular literature, including works on political economy, sanitary reform, balloon flight, Alpine mountaineering and African exploration. The consolations offered by this geography of risk are precariously predicated on the stability of dominant Victorian definitions of people and places. Women, men, the labouring and middle classes, the English and the Irish, Africa and Africans: all have assigned identities which allow risk to be located and contained. When identities shift and boundaries fail, danger and safety begin to appear in all the wrong places. The texts that this study focuses on reveal the ways in which risk moralizes and naturalizes the economic and political institutions of industrial, imperial culture during a period of unprecedented expansion and change. 410 0$aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;$v28. 606 $aTravelers' writings, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish prose literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRisk perception$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aBritish$zForeign countries$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aTravel writing$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aTravel in literature 606 $aRisk in literature 606 $aAutobiography 607 $aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$y1837-1901 615 0$aTravelers' writings, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRisk perception$xHistory 615 0$aBritish$xHistory 615 0$aTravel writing$xHistory 615 0$aTravel in literature. 615 0$aRisk in literature. 615 0$aAutobiography. 676 $a820.9/355 700 $aFreedgood$b Elaine$01668765 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819694703321 996 $aVictorian writing about risk$94103645 997 $aUNINA