TY - BOOK AU - Freedgood,Elaine TI - Victorian Writing about Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World T2 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture SN - 9780511151163 AV - PR756.T72 F74 2000 U1 - 820.9355 PY - 2000/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Travelers' writings, English--History and criticism KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - This book, first published in 2000, explores the geography of risk produced by a wide spectrum of once-popular literature UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/buse-ebooks/detail.action?docID=144673 ER -