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Risky Business: The Economy of Self-Management in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction

Carozza, Davide Guido (2020)

This study argues that in the eighteenth century a discourse of risk management emerged that fundamentally reshaped the relation of man to the world by imagining that the individual was capable of controlling aspects of ...