Victorian Writing about Risk
Original title: Victorian writing about risk
earliest edition we have, 2000 Cambridge University Press, 2006 paperback 231 pages
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
"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, t...
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