Risk and the English Novel : : From Defoe to McEwan / / Julia Hoydis.
Taking the cue from the currency of risk in popular and interdisciplinary academic discourse, this book explores the development of the English novel in relation to the emergence and institutionalization of risk, from its origins in probability theory in the late seventeenth century to the global ‘r...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 666 p.) |
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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
- 1. Calculating a New View of Life
- 2. Defoe and his Protagonists at Large in the Risk Society
- 3. Swift, Smollett, Sterne, and Walpole: Fears of Masculinity and Parodies of Calculation
- 4. Picturing Female Youth at Risk: Camilla
- Part II. Out of the Ordinary: The Gamble of Life in the 19th‐century Novel
- 5. Old and New Concerns
- 6. Precariousness, Accidents, and Divisions
- 7. Epic Tales of Ambition and Speculation
- 8. 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
- 9. A Sense of Endings
- 10. Gendered Routines of Risk-Taking
- 11. Running Out of Time
- 12. Domestic (In)securities
- Epilogue
- Works Cited
- Subject Index
- Index of Persons