Danger And Vulnerability In Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Crash And Burn - 9781498563413

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 --

• | Author: Jennifer Travis
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: Mar 12, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 174 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/LITERARY CRITICISM
• | ISBN-10: 1498563414
• | ISBN-13: 9781498563413