Freedgood, Elaine.

Victorian writing about risk imagining a safe England in a dangerous world / [[Book] :] Elaine Freedgood. - Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000. - 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 28 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-211) and index.

All age.

0521781086 9780521028721


Travelers' writings, English--History and criticism.
English prose literature--History and criticism.--19th century.
Risk perception--History--Great Britain--19th century.
British--History--Foreign countries--19th century.
Travel writing--History--19th century.
Travel in literature.
Risk in literature.
Autobiography.


Great Britain--Foreign relations--1837-1901.

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