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

by Jennifer Travis (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Jennifer Travis is associate professor of English at St. John's University.