Victorian Writing about Risk

Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World

By:

Elaine Freedgood

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

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In Victorian Writing about Risk, 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 moralises and naturalises the economic and political institutions of industrial, imperial culture during a period of unprecedented expansion and change.

Release date Australia

September 28th, 2000

Author

Elaine Freedgood

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

6 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

232

Series

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Dimensions

152x229x17

ISBN-13

9780521781084

Product ID

2161359

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