Victorian Writing about Risk : Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World.

By: Freedgood, ElaineMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and CulturePublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (233 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780511151163Subject(s): Travelers' writings, English--History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Victorian Writing about Risk : Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous WorldDDC classification: 820.9355 LOC classification: PR756.T72 F74 2000Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the practice of paradise -- CHAPTER ONE Banishing panic: J. R. McCulloch, Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political economy -- I. -- II. -- CHAPTER TWO The rhetoric of visible hands: Edwin Chadwick, Florence Nightingale and the popularization of sanitary reform -- I. -- II. -- CHAPTER THREE Groundless optimism: regression in the service of the ego, England and empire in Victorian ballooning memoirs -- CHAPTER FOUR The uses of pain: cultural masochism and the colonization of the future in Victorian mountaineering memoirs -- I. -- II. -- III. -- IV. -- V. -- VI. -- CHAPTER FIVE A field for enterprise: the memoirs of David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley -- I. -- II. -- III. -- IV. -- Conclusion -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION: THE PRACTICE OF PARADISE -- I 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This book, first published in 2000, explores the geography of risk produced by a wide spectrum of once-popular literature.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the practice of paradise -- CHAPTER ONE Banishing panic: J. R. McCulloch, Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political economy -- I. -- II. -- CHAPTER TWO The rhetoric of visible hands: Edwin Chadwick, Florence Nightingale and the popularization of sanitary reform -- I. -- II. -- CHAPTER THREE Groundless optimism: regression in the service of the ego, England and empire in Victorian ballooning memoirs -- CHAPTER FOUR The uses of pain: cultural masochism and the colonization of the future in Victorian mountaineering memoirs -- I. -- II. -- III. -- IV. -- V. -- VI. -- CHAPTER FIVE A field for enterprise: the memoirs of David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley -- I. -- II. -- III. -- IV. -- Conclusion -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION: THE PRACTICE OF PARADISE -- I 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book, first published in 2000, explores the geography of risk produced by a wide spectrum of once-popular literature.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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