Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a dangerous world /
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| フォーマット: | Licensed eBooks |
| 言語: | 英語 |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| シリーズ: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
28. |
| オンライン･アクセス: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=73046 |
目次:
- 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.