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By Accident or Design - Writing the Victorian Metropolis (Paperback)
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By Accident or Design - Writing the Victorian Metropolis (Paperback)
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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 Victorians arrested the paradoxes of metropolitan
modernity and reconfigured understandings of form and change. Paul
Fyfe shows how the material conditions of urban accidents offer new
and compelling modes of analysis for intellectual and literary
history. Through extensive archival study and interdisciplinary
analysis of urban-industrial accidents, risk management, and civic
improvements, By Accident or Design reclaims the metropolis as
ground zero for some of the most important thinking about causation
in the nineteenth century. It demonstrates the centrality of
interdependent concepts of design and accident not only to
metropolitan discourse, but also to current critical discourse
about the formal and circulatory dynamics of Victorian metropolitan
writing. Thus, this book offers a new vocabulary for the dialectics
of the modern city and the signature forms of writing about it,
including the newspaper, the illustrated periodical, the industrial
novel, and urban broadsheets.
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