| Victorian Writing about Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World Contributor(s): Freedgood, Elaine (Author), Elaine, Freedgood (Author), Beer, Gillian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521028728 ISBN-13: 9780521028721 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $42.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2006 Annotation: In Victorian Writing about Risk, Elaine Freedgood explores a wide spectrum of once-popular literature, including works on political economy, sanitary reform, balloon flight, 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 laboring and middle classes, Africa and Africans: all have assigned identities that allow risk to be located and contained. When identities shift and boundaries fail, danger and safety begin to appear in all the wrong places. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.935 |
| Lexile Measure: 1610 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6" W x 9" (0.76 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 19th Century |