Risk and the English novel : from Defoe to McEwan /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2019]
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| Series: | Buchreihe der Anglia ;
66. Bd. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Risk Theory and Narrative Fiction
- An Interdisciplinary Overview
- Part I. Survival Against the Odds: The Rise of Risk in the 18th-century Novel
- Calculating a New View of Life
- Defoe and his Protagonists at Large in the Risk Society
- Swift, Smollett, Sterne, and Walpole: Fears of Masculinity and Parodies of Calculation
- Picturing Female Youth at Risk: Camilla
- Part II. Out of the Ordinary: The Gamble of Life in the 19th-century Novel
- Old and New Concerns
- Precariousness, Accidents, and Divisions
- Epic Tales of Ambition and Speculation
- The Dangers of Human Nature and the Struggle Between the Sexes
- Part III. Crisis and Contingency: Threats to Humanity in the 20th- and 21st-century Novel
- A Sense of Endings
- Gendered Routines of Risk-Taking
- Running Out of Time
- Domestic (In)securities
- Epilogue
- Works Cited
- Subject Index
- Index of Persons.