Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a dangerous world /

Opis bibliograficzny
1. autor: Freedgood, Elaine
Format: Licensed eBooks
Język:angielski
Wydane: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Seria:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 28.
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Spis treści:
  • 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.