Danger and vulnerability in the American imagination : crash and burn /: crash and burn. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jennifer Travis.
• Authors: Travis, Jennifer, 1967-
• Contents: Introduction -Crash and Burn ; Chapter One -A “damsel-errant in quest of adventures”: E.D.E.N. Southworth, Sensation, and the Law ; Chapter Two -Crash Lit: Trains, Pains, and Automobiles ; Chapter Three -“Hurts That Will Not Heal”: Theodore Dreiser, Masculinity, and Railroad Labor ; Chapter Four -Burning Down the House: Comets, Hurricanes, and the Fire to Come ; Chapter Five -The Tremblor: Disaster and Vulnerability, San Francisco, 1906
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 810.935309034; American literature -- 19th century -- History and cricitism; Disasters in literature; Risk in literature; Vulnerability (Personality trait) in literature; Psychic trauma in literature; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498563420
• Related ISBNs: 9781498563413
• Notes: Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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