Victorian writing about risk
About this book
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Reader Profile
· 231 pages · ≈ 4 h 17 m · Challenging
How long does it take to read Victorian writing about risk?
About ≈ 4 h 17 m — 231 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Victorian writing about risk?
231 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Victorian writing about risk?
It sits on the Travel, Biography & Memoir, History shelves.
Is Victorian writing about risk in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote Victorian writing about risk?
Elaine Freedgood.