Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a dangerous world. [elektronicky zdroj]
| Autor: | Freedgood, Elaine, author |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Informace o vydání: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000. |
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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 |
| Druh dokumentu: | Online; Non-fiction; Electronic document |
| Abstrakt: | Summary: 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. |
| Databáze: | Vybrané kolekce e-knih |
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