Danger and Vulnerability in the American Imagination
Autor Jennifer Travisen Limba Engleză Hardback – mai 2018
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781498563413
ISBN-10: 1498563414
Pagini: 186
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN-10: 1498563414
Pagini: 186
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield
Notă biografică
Jennifer Travis is associate professor of English at St. John¿s University.
Cuprins
Introduction - Crash and Burn
Chapter One - A ¿damsel-errant in quest of adventures¿: E.D.E.N. Southworth, Sensation, and the Law
Chapter Two - Crash Lit: Trains, Pains, and Automobiles
Chapter Three - ¿Hurts That Will Not Heal¿: Theodore Dreiser, Masculinity, and Railroad Labor
Chapter Four - Burning Down the House: Comets, Hurricanes, and the Fire to Come
Chapter Five - The Tremblor: Disaster and Vulnerability, San Francisco, 1906
Descriere
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.