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
Jennifer Travis is associate professor of English at St. John’s University.
Jennifer Travis’s deeply-researched study examines how
nineteenth-century Americans sought to guard against the very
technology that they hoped would keep them safe. Moving from
sentimental novels to medical, sociological and business texts,
Travis skillfully charts Americans’ ongoing fear of vulnerability,
and the lengths to which they would go to avoid it. This book has
much to offer nineteenth-century scholars, but It also offers rich
insight into our current struggle to negotiate technology’s risks
and rewards.
*Anna Mae Duane, University of Connecticut*
Jennifer Travis has written an important, groundbreaking book that
will generate much discussion. Her command of scholarship beyond
literary studies is extraordinary.
*Paul Sorrentino, Virginia Tech*
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