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

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : illustrations Series Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 28 Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 28 Contents 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 Summary "In Victorian Writing about Risk, Elaine Freedgood explores the geography of risk produced by a wide spectrum of once-popular literature, including works on politic 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 laboring and middle classes, the English and the Irish, 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. 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."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index Notes English Print version record Subject 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. Autobiographies as Topic autobiography (genre) LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Autobiography British -- Foreign countries Diplomatic relations English prose literature Risk in literature Risk perception Travel in literature Travel writing Travelers' writings, English Reiseliteratur Abenteuerliteratur Risico nemen. Victoriaanse tijd. Veiligheid. Reisverhalen. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1837-1901. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056711 Subject Great Britain Englisch. Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 99086371 ISBN 0511010125 9780511010125 0511030703 9780511030703 0511118635 9780511118630 9780521781084 0521781086 9780511484797 0511484798 9780511045950 0511045956 0511151160 9780511151163 1280154756 9781280154751 9786610154753 6610154759 1107120241 9781107120242 9780521028721 0521028728

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