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-9910455236403321 |
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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 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a dangerous world / / Elaine Freedgood |
Autore | Freedgood Elaine |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge [England] ; ; New York, : 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 |
Freedgood Elaine
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Cambridge [England] ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2000 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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