Danger and vulnerability in the American imagination: crash and burn

"This book reads nineteenth-century American literature in the context of emerging technologies, laws, and industries. By engaging ideas about risk and vulnerability, literature showed a shift in America's cultural ethos from lauding autonomy and mastery to promoting a sympathetic state an...

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1. Verfasser: Travis, Jennifer 1967- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London Lexington Books [2018]
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Zusammenfassung:"This book reads nineteenth-century American literature in the context of emerging technologies, laws, and industries. By engaging ideas about risk and vulnerability, literature showed a shift in America's cultural ethos from lauding autonomy and mastery to promoting a sympathetic state and encouraging new forms of cultural recompense" ...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xii, 161 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781498563413

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