Danger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth-century American Literature: Crash and Burn

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: March 09, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 186 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1498563430
• | ISBN-13: 9781498563437