Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: the practice of paradise
- 1 Banishing panic: J. R. McCulloch, Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political economy
- 2 The rhetoric of visible hands: Edwin Chadwick, Florence Nightingale and the popularization of sanitary reform
- 3 Groundless optimism: regression in the service of the ego, England and empire in Victorian ballooning memoirs
- 4 The uses of pain: cultural masochism and the colonization of the future in Victorian mountaineering memoirs
- 5 A field for enterprise: the memoirs of David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE
List of illustrations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: the practice of paradise
- 1 Banishing panic: J. R. McCulloch, Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political economy
- 2 The rhetoric of visible hands: Edwin Chadwick, Florence Nightingale and the popularization of sanitary reform
- 3 Groundless optimism: regression in the service of the ego, England and empire in Victorian ballooning memoirs
- 4 The uses of pain: cultural masochism and the colonization of the future in Victorian mountaineering memoirs
- 5 A field for enterprise: the memoirs of David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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- Victorian Writing about RiskImagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World, pp. xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000