Paul Fyfe

By Accident or Design

Writing the Victorian Metropolis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By Accident or Design explains how and why the Victorians were fascinated by accidents, including omnibus collisions, fires, and railway crashes, and how these accidents offered a way to describe how large, complex things like cities might grow and change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780198834182
• ISBN-10: 0198834187
• Artikelnr.: 58775267

Autorenporträt

Paul Fyfe is Associate Professor in the Department of English and program faculty in the Communications, Rhetoric, and Digital Media program at North Carolina State University. He earned a PhD from the University of Virginia and developed specialties in Victorian literature as well as book and media history. At NC State, he teaches courses in nineteenth-century British literature, technologies of texts and writing, and digital humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Accidents in the News
2: Dickens and the Traffic of Accidents
3: Industrial Accidents and Novel Insurances
4: Street Literature and the Remediation of Accident
5: Chaos and Connections on the Victorian Railway
Afterword: An Accidental Excursion