How Long to Read Risk and the English Novel

How Long Does it Take to Read Risk and the English Novel?

It takes the average reader 11 hours and 24 minutes to read Risk and the English Novel by Julia Hoydis

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Taking 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.

How long is Risk and the English Novel?

Risk and the English Novel by Julia Hoydis is 674 pages long, and a total of 171,196 words.

This makes it 227% the length of the average book. It also has 209% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Risk and the English Novel Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 15 hours and 35 minutes to read Risk and the English Novel aloud.

What Reading Level is Risk and the English Novel?

Risk and the English Novel is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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