Danger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth-century American Literature
Crash and Burn
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- £31.99
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- £31.99
Publisher Description
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.