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Back to topDanger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth-century American Literature: Crash and Burn (Paperback)
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Description
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.
About the Author
Jennifer Travis is associate professor of English at St. John's University.