1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009027880403321

Titolo

Proceedings of the Chemical Society

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Chemical Society

ISSN

0369-8718

Disciplina

640.5

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910157853803321

Autore

Fyfe Paul

Titolo

By accident or design : writing the Victorian metropolis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

ISBN

0-19-179667-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Classificazione

18.05

Disciplina

363.10094109034

Soggetti

Accidents - History - 19th century - Great Britain

Accidents in literature - Prevention - Great Britain

Accidents

Social Welfare & Social Work

Social Sciences

Social Welfare & Social Work - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

'By Accident or Design: Writing the Victorian Metropolis' takes Henry James' observation of London in 1888 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. This book shows how the material conditions of urban accidents offer new and compelling modes of analysis for intellectual and literary history.