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List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: the practice ofparadise; 1. Banishing panic: J. R. McCulloch, Harriet Martineau and thepopularization of political economy; 2. The rhetoric of visible hands: EdwinChadwick; Florence Nightingale and the popularization of sanitary reform; 3.Groundless optimism: regression in the service of the ego, England and empirein Victorian ballooning memoirs; 4. The uses of pain: cultural masochism andthe colonization of the future in Victorian mountaineering memoirs; 5. Afield for enterprise: the memoirs of David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley;Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.