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From Status to Contract: Domesticating Modernity in Wuthering Heights, The Mill on the Floss and Dracula
(2011-04-04)In England, the nineteenth-century was a time of change. The social developments instigated by the French Revolution in France were making way across the channel, intensified by the technological innovation generated by ... -
Risky Business: The Economy of Self-Management in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
(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 ...