Danger And Vulnerability In The American Imagination: Crash And Burn
by Jennifer Travis /
2018 / English / PDF
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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.
