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

by Jennifer Travis

Book Overview

This bookreads nineteenth-century American literature in the context ofemergingtechnologies, 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498563430
• ISBN13: 9781498563437
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"