{"product_id":"victorian-writing-about-risk-imagining-a-safe-england-in-a-dangerous-world-hardback-9780521781084","title":"Victorian Writing about Risk; Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World (Hardback) 9780521781084","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eVictorian Writing about Risk\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eImagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book, first published in 2000, explores the geography of risk produced by a wide spectrum of once-popular literature.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElaine Freedgood (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521781084, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 September 2000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages, 6 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.51 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Freedgood's work is most compelling...\"   Albion\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn Victorian Writing about Risk, first published in 2000, 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 moralizes and naturalizes the economic and political institutions of industrial, imperial culture during a period of unprecedented expansion and change.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: the practice of paradise\u003cbr\u003e 1. Banishing panic: J. R. McCulloch, Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political economy\u003cbr\u003e 2. The rhetoric of visible hands: Edwin Chadwick, Florence Nightingale and the popularization of sanitary reform\u003cbr\u003e 3. Groundless optimism: regression in the service of the ego, England and empire in Victorian ballooning memoirs\u003cbr\u003e 4. The uses of pain: cultural masochism and the colonization of the future in Victorian mountaineering memoirs\u003cbr\u003e 5. A field for enterprise: the memoirs of David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265076482328,"sku":"9780521781084","price":71.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521781084i.jpg?v=1692019249","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/victorian-writing-about-risk-imagining-a-safe-england-in-a-dangerous-world-hardback-9780521781084","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}