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035 _a(DE-B1597)9783110615418
035 _a(DE-B1597)527100
035 _a(OCoLC)1121641962
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aHoydis, Julia
_eautore
245 1 0 _aRisk and the English Novel :
_bFrom Defoe to McEwan /
_cJulia Hoydis.
264 1 _aBerlin ;
_aBoston :
_bDe Gruyter,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a1 online resource (VIII, 666 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aBuchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ,
_x0340-5435 ;
_v66
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction: Risk Theory and Narrative Fiction – An Interdisciplinary Overview --
_tPart I. Survival Against the Odds: The Rise of Risk in the 18th‐century Novel --
_t1. Calculating a New View of Life --
_t2. Defoe and his Protagonists at Large in the Risk Society --
_t3. Swift, Smollett, Sterne, and Walpole: Fears of Masculinity and Parodies of Calculation --
_t4. Picturing Female Youth at Risk: Camilla --
_tPart II. Out of the Ordinary: The Gamble of Life in the 19th‐century Novel --
_t5. Old and New Concerns --
_t6. Precariousness, Accidents, and Divisions --
_t7. Epic Tales of Ambition and Speculation --
_t8. The Dangers of Human Nature and the Struggle Between the Sexes --
_tPart III. Crisis and Contingency: Threats to Humanity in the 20th- and 21st-century Novel --
_t9. A Sense of Endings --
_t10. Gendered Routines of Risk-Taking --
_t11. Running Out of Time --
_t12. Domestic (In)securities --
_tEpilogue --
_tWorks Cited --
_tSubject Index --
_tIndex of Persons
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aTaking 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 ‘risk society’ in the twenty-first century. Focussing on 29 novels from Defoe to McEwan, this book argues for the contemporaneity of the rise of risk and the novel and suggests that there is much to gain from reading the risk society from a diachronic, literary-cultural perspective. Tracing changes and continuities, the fictional case studies reveal the human preoccupation with safety and control of the future. They show the struggle with uncertainties and the construction of individual or collective ‘logics’ of risk, which oscillate between rational calculation and emotion, helplessness and denial, and an enabling or destructive sense of adventure and danger. Advancing the study of risk in fiction beyond the confinement to dystopian disaster narratives, this book shows how topical notions, such as chance and probability, uncertainty and responsibility, fears of decline and transgression, all cluster around risk.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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653 _aEnglish novel.
653 _aRisk.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783110615418
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110615418
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