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Danger and vulnerability in nineteenth-century American literature : crash and burn
Title
Danger and vulnerability in nineteenth-century American literature : crash and burn / Jennifer Travis.
ISBN
9781498563413
1498563414
Publication
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]
Physical Description
xii, 161 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
"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" -- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Travis, Jennifer, 1967- author. Danger and vulnerability in the American imagination Lanham : Lexington Books, 2018
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 18, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-149) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Crash and burn
A "damsel-errant in quest of adventures": E.D.E.N. Southworth, sensation, and the law
Crash lit: trains, pains, and automobiles
"Hurts that will not heal": Theodore Dreiser, masculinity, and railroad labor
Burning down the house: comets, hurricanes, and the fire to come
The tremblor: disaster and vulnerability, San Francisco, 1906.
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