By Accident or Design: Writing the Victorian Metropolis

by Paul Fyfe

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'Ohe banks of the Thames it is a tremendous chapter of accidents'. As Henry James surveys London in 1888, he sums up what had fascinated urban observers for a century: the random and even accidental development of this unprecedented form of human settlement, the modern metropolis. By Accident or Design: Writing the Victorian Metropolis takes James at his word, arguing that accident was both a powerful metaphor and material context through which the...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0198834187

ISBN13:9780198834182

Release Date:August 2020

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Related Subjects

History Literary Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction

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