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Zusatztext By Accident or Design constitutes a thoughtful and richly dense literary-historical study of chance, risk and accident in the Victorian city, and one that is alert to the many debates with which it engages. Informationen zum Autor Paul Fyfe is Assistant 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
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- 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
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The material here is fascinating ... [Fyfe] has provided readers with stimulating new ways of looking at a broad literary spectrum and that is a considerable achievement. Jacqueline Banerjee, The Times Literary Supplement
