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.
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.
Jennifer Travis is associate professor of English at St. John's University.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction - Crash and Burn Chapter One - A "damsel-errant in quest of adventures": E.D.E.N. Southworth Sensation and the Law Chapter Two - Crash Lit: Trains Pains and Automobiles Chapter Three - "Hurts That Will Not Heal": Theodore Dreiser Masculinity and Railroad Labor Chapter Four - Burning Down the House: Comets Hurricanes and the Fire to Come Chapter Five - The Tremblor: Disaster and Vulnerability San Francisco 1906
Introduction - Crash and Burn Chapter One - A "damsel-errant in quest of adventures": E.D.E.N. Southworth Sensation and the Law Chapter Two - Crash Lit: Trains Pains and Automobiles Chapter Three - "Hurts That Will Not Heal": Theodore Dreiser Masculinity and Railroad Labor Chapter Four - Burning Down the House: Comets Hurricanes and the Fire to Come Chapter Five - The Tremblor: Disaster and Vulnerability San Francisco 1906
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