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Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a dangerous world / / Elaine Freedgood [[electronic resource]]
| Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a dangerous world / / Elaine Freedgood [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Freedgood Elaine |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/355 |
| Collana | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture |
| Soggetto topico |
Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism
English prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism Risk perception - Great Britain - History - 19th century British - Foreign countries - History - 19th century Travel writing - History - 19th century Travel in literature Risk in literature Autobiography |
| ISBN |
1-107-12024-1
0-511-15116-0 0-511-31051-X 0-511-04595-6 0-521-78108-6 1-280-15475-6 0-511-11863-5 0-511-48479-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780091303321 |
Freedgood Elaine
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a dangerous world / / Elaine Freedgood [[electronic resource]]
| Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a dangerous world / / Elaine Freedgood [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Freedgood Elaine |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/355 |
| Collana | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture |
| Soggetto topico |
Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism
English prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism Risk perception - Great Britain - History - 19th century British - Foreign countries - History - 19th century Travel writing - History - 19th century Travel in literature Risk in literature Autobiography |
| ISBN |
1-107-12024-1
0-511-15116-0 0-511-31051-X 0-511-04595-6 0-521-78108-6 1-280-15475-6 0-511-11863-5 0-511-48479-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819694703321 |
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Freedgood Elaine
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Women rewriting boundaries : Victorian women travel writers / / edited by Precious McKenzie Stearns
| Women rewriting boundaries : Victorian women travel writers / / edited by Precious McKenzie Stearns |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (202 pages) |
| Disciplina | 820.9928709033 |
| Soggetto topico |
English prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism
English prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
| ISBN | 1-4438-5850-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910155093403321 |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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