Victorian Writing about Risk
Subtitle: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780521028721
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Travelers' writings, English--History and cri; Travelers' writings, English--History and criticism
First sentence: In the first three decades of the nineteenth century, a number of British liberal intellectuals attempted to popularize the "laws" of classical political economy in the hope, as the statistician William Farr put it, that "knowledge [would] banish panic."