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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: the practice of paradise | 1 | |
| 1 | Banishing panic: J. R. McCulloch, Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political economy | 13 |
| 2 | The rhetoric of visible hands: Edwin Chadwick, Florence Nightingale and the popularization of sanitary reform | 42 |
| 3 | Groundless optimism: regression in the service of the ego, England and empire in Victorian ballooning memoirs | 74 |
| 4 | The uses of pain: cultural masochism and the colonization of the future in Victorian mountaineering memoirs | 99 |
| 5 | A field for enterprise: the memoirs of David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley | 132 |
| Conclusion | 170 | |
| Notes | 173 | |
| Bibliography | 199 | |
| Index | 212 |
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Rob Stein
reviewed Victorian Writing about Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World on December 14, 2011
Victorian Writing about Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World
The debate over who was responsible for Elizabeth's image(s) as Gloriana, the Virgin Queen, continues. Frye takes one of the more subtle views and examines the way the very contestation of images created the representations we still hold today.
Taking an overtly feminist stance, Frye especially explores the role of gender and Elizabeth's own agency, and the way she both worked within contemporary gender roles while simultaneously problematising them.
This is especially good on the 1590s, the difficult last decade of Elizabeth's reign, when she turned 60 and yet still appeared in her portraits as the immortal beauty. Frye's readings take in literary representations (e.g. The Faerie Queene) as well as painted images.
This is imaginative as well as rigorous, suggestive and provocative, and well-worth reading for anyone working in this field.
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